Essays on Still I Rise

The poem “Still I Rise”, was written by an African American poet Maya Angelou. She wrote this poem to show that not only the struggle that she went through but the positive attitude that the author gained, against racial and gender discrimination. This poem reflects...

Literature – this plays the superior role in world’s history of human life. This consist the past, present, and future contributions in itself. Through literature we can able to know the life style and sufferings of our ancestors according their cultural manner. Subaltern is a...

Through Maya Angelou’s poetry ‘‘Still, I Rise’’, the poet uses repetition, metaphors, rhyme and anaphora to convey to the audience how she conquered discrimination through her life by displaying a powerful, confident, mentality to encourage others. Angelou’s message throughout the poem is based on her...

Wanting to rise above the agony; Still I Rise is Maya Angelou’s experience with rising above society’s torment. Words like “Shoot me with your words”, “Cut me with your eyes” and “Kill me with your hatefulness” all describe the pain society tried to put on...

“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we’re going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don’t defeat death, they come to terms with it.”This quote by Laurence Gonzales, a scholar at...

Maya Angelou is an admirable activist that is best known for her contributions to the African American Civil Rights Movement and for her masterly poetic works. “Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism”. With the same attitude as her good friend, Winfrey, Angelou...

‘What are you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay…’ These lines correspond to two main issues she struggles with throughout her childhood are unhappiness with her appearance and a perpetual feeling of displacement. With this opening scene Maya encapsulates the struggles that...

Maya Angelou was born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up during the horrible time of segregation. Growing up female and black during that time led to a lot of discrimination. When Angelou was seventeen she started writing poems. She took her rough...