Comparing Cady Stanton And Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou & Cady Stanton

Maya Angelou and Cady Stanton both wrote about freedom, equality and achievement and success. In Angelou's poem “On The Pulse of Morning” and Stanton’s speech “Declaration of the Sentiments of seneca falls woman's right convertion” each piece were compared and contrasted based off what Stanton and Angelou wrote. Angelou wrote her speech based off a tree, and Stanton wrote her idea based off what was currently going on in the world. While some difference between Maya Angelou and Cady Stanton are evident, the similarities and differences are sticking. Cady Stanton and Maya Angelou are similar when they talked about freedom because both had the same views; Cady Stanton talked and wrote about how women were treated differently than men and had less opportunities than them. “He has withheld from her

Stanton had wrote “He never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right-” (Stanton 112). Women could not really do much back in the day, not only that there was a point in time where women could not vote. Women have never really been treated equally when compared to a male. On that note Angelou spoke a little differently when she talked about equality. In her poem she implied, “today, the first and last of every Tree speak to humankind. Come to me, here besides the river. Plant yourself here besides the river, Each of you descendant of some passed on traveller, has been paid for. You who gave me my first name, you Pawnee,Apache and Seneca, you Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, then forced on bloody feet, left me to employment if other seekers - desperate for grain, starving gold” (Angelou 51-61). Maya Angelou used a tree as an object for equality, The tree represents the roots where people come from. Angelou and Stanton come off differently because Angelou is comparing hers to ideas and stanton's is being