Tynisha



** Maya Angelou - **

**Biography -****Born April 4th,1928 in St.Louis. **Maya Angelou is a great poet, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Maya is the daughter of Bailey and Vivian Baxter Johnson and grew up with one brother. Mayas original name is Margarette Johnson. =**Writer's Style**-= In her peoms she tells stories. Mostly stories of her life that most likely will relate to others.Her vocabulary is easy to understand for a person of a higher reading level. Its also important that some of her poems be read by an older audience because of what she says. She's a very honest and open woman as you can see if you read most of her poetry.She's an emotional person, that is very inspirational.

**Still I Rise **
**You may write me down in history ** **With your bitter, twisted lies, ** **You may trod me in the very dirt ** **But still, like dust, I'll rise. ** **Does my sassiness upset you? ** **Why are you beset with gloom? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Pumping in my living room. ** ==<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Just like moons and like suns, ** ==

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">With the certainty of tides, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Just like hopes springing high, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Still I'll rise. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Did you want to see me broken? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Bowed head and lowered eyes? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Shoulders falling down like teardrops, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Weakened by my soulful cries? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Does my haughtiness offend you? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Don't you take it awful hard ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Diggin' in my own backyard. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">You may shoot me with your words, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">You may cut me with your eyes, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">You may kill me with your hatefulness, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">But still, like air, I'll rise. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Does my sexiness upset you? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Does it come as a surprise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">That I dance like I've got diamonds ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">At the meeting of my thighs? ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Out of the huts of history's shame ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Up from a past that's rooted in pain ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I am the dream and the hope of the slave. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">I rise. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB Demi','sans-serif';">In Maya Angelou's poem " Still I Rise" she is saying no matter how much people say nothing can bring her down, and she remains strong. This poem is a very strong poem and I highly relate to it thats why I chose to do this poem. In the poem Maya uses similies. repetition, rhyme and imagery. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">

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