Maya Angelou Essay – not completed.

The poem I choose to write about Is Still I Rise by Maya Angelo. The reason why I choose this poem over the others is because it really puts on display her courage, and strength even throughout her rattling grim life. Maya instills the mood of the poem by using many literary devices. The mood of the poem is empowerment, and strength even through anything you may possible be going through.A simile she used in the poem was in the third stanza, where she says that like moons and like suns, With certainty of tides. Just like hopes springing high, Still Ill rise. What I interpreted her saying was, no matter how low she may be, or even be at rock bottom she still will trace back to the top. I liked how she used the moon and the sun as an example, Just for the sole reason everyone knows how the suns rises and sets everyday. I personally like this stanza the best Just because of her optimism.It really shows how she has courage In herself. Im sure everyone can connect to this Tanta. May a uses repetition with the word Rise to show that she has gotten over and risen above racism. In the stanza where she says, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust ill rise it stresses to the reader one of the main points in the poem, that no matter how raw people will treat her because of her skin, she will let them bring her down and will stand up against them. The main point in that line is the move up slope dust.For dust to rise, it must be messed with from the ground for it to leave ND rise, which represents Mamas overcoming of racism. Her enemies, on the floor and because they have unsettled her by treating her wrong, she choose to stay strong which Is her rising above them all, going against racism. The way she uses repetition Is also used Maya, repeats the words l rise more than 4 times In the last part. This stresses the content of the poem, letting us know what she was trying to say in the beginning, when she was comparing herself to rising dust from the ground.