Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri ,she is an amercian autobiographer and poet. she worked in Egypt and Ghana and was a member of the Harlems Writers Guild in the late 1950s, was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. Angelou has received over 30 honorary degrees and is Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
these: Similes, metaphors, allusions,and personification are used in this poem to express the poet's feelings of resistance towards her history of oppression
Questions
1. how are similies and metaaphors used in this poem?
2.How is the writer's life reflected in this poem?
3. What kind of times does this poem reflect?
4. What is your favourite line in this poem?
5. How can we take what this poem is saying and apply it to our own lives?
