maya angelous
Analysis: Through jargon, diction, imagery and imagery, Angelou expresses that she will overcome racism; despite her race, she color, she will not feel inferior to any race. In the first stanza, Angelou refers to racism-and how she will overcome it. The image coveyed by her statement, "You may trod me in the dirt" figurately illustrates how the white man puts down the black race with his dirty, disgusting racist words. Yet despite such racism, she will rise. In the second stanza, Angelou's use of rhetorical questions reflect her confidence-she feels powerful in her dark skin-as she passionately speaks to the white man about how she is not i
The repetition of the blunt statement "I rise" dramatize her freedom from racism. She is "the dream and the hope of the slave" because she will rise away from such horrors. In the fourth stanza, the rhetorical questions refer, once again, to the racism which Angelou suffers. " The repetition of "You may" and her violent diction dramatize that despite any type of racist action against her, Angelou "like air" will rise. In the last stanza, she further states that she will break free from the ropes that tie Black to inferiority, to "terror", to "fear" and rise. Furthermore, I enjoyed how I could feel the poet's passion in finding freedom. " figuratively expresses that she has found wealth, she has found joy in being an Afrcan American. She asks, "Does my sexiness upset you?" She is obviously proud to be in her colred skin. Reponse: I like this poem because it vividly expresses a human's ability to overcome anything. In the sixth stanza, she encourages the white man to "shoot me with your words", to "cut me with your eyes", to even "kill me with your hatefulness. Strongly believing in human rights of equality, appreciate the poem's theme, which encourages not only the Black race, but all discimnated races, to break away from racism and ight for their equality.
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