Maya Angelo Still I Rise

Our generation has escaped a lot of struggles, even with that being said, we still have our own struggles that we need to overcome May Angelo had fought her own struggles, mainly struggles to make sure people of color do not have to through the struggles she herself has endured. I have read great poems she has written over the time and she considered herself to be a poet and playwright, but for this essay I will mainly focus on her poem called “ Still I Rise” which was published by Random House in 1978 which she eloquently writes about how she will rise, I will analyze each stanza to the best of my knowledge while using my life stories to relate to each stanza and conclude by giving my opinion about the poem and who she wrote it for and whether I believe her targeted audience got her message.

The first stanza she writes about how even if they write lies about her in history books she will still rise, which makes me think about how when it come to the history of American slaves one as to ask themselves whether we are being told the whole truth about what happen during slavery. She continue to

However, some people do not let other people bring them, they see the cruelty that people do as a chance for them to shine, just like Maya Angelou, she did not let anyone bring her down and make her weak in anyway instead, she chose to rise and express the way she feels through poetry. Our generation does not know how to rise like Maya Angelou, we intend to cry, blame other people for our failures and when we see people who hate us we spend our time trying to get they’re approve and not understand our own inner powers like Maya discovered she can do anything she wants, because she doesn’t need anybody’s approve to be who she is and do what she