Maya Angelou delivers a message of aspiration or hope in her poem. She has underscored on culture, uniformity and decent variety of the considerable number of individuals living in America. For example, in stanza four she says, ‘the singing stream and the shrewd rocks’. She at that point cites distinctive ethnic networks and say that they hear the message. This demonstrates this individuals are diverse because of their distinctive societies yet joined ordinarily.
The sonnet likewise urges the hyphenated Americans to take mettle and guarantee correspondence. She says ‘Ladies, youngsters, men, bring it into the palms of your hands’ (Senior member, 7). This demonstrates with correspondence for ladies, men, whites and blacks the general public can be an adoring one. Regardless of whether poor or rich every one of the general population living in America have similar chances. This ballad likewise recognizes hyphenated Americans as individuals who dependably require help since she asserts that she doesn’t get help any longer since the general public has changed. Regardless of how bizarre the hyphenate Americans may look to other people, or regardless of when they showed up ever, individuals must recognize that we are for the most part individuals from this wonderful planet.
The ballad likewise recognizes hyphenated Americans as individuals with quality. She states ‘yet today the stone cries to us, unmistakably, commandingly, come you… .’ The crying rock means the quality of this gathering of individuals (Angelou, 10). This quality enables them to stand together as one and not to take cover behind weakling ness, disgrace or modesty however to meet up and emphatically battle for what they accept is correct.
This lyric additionally recognizes hyphenated Americans as individuals who realizes what is correct and who will battle for it. This show hyphenated individuals can meet up and wind up strong as shake.
Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” explores the struggle to overcome oppression and prejudice. Though this free-verse refers to the prejudice in slavery and African American rights issues, the poem is universal in its entreaty. The poem commences with subservience experiences of the speaker as well as asking rhetorical questions to which she responds “I rise.” Angelou utilizes anger and triumphant, to challenge those who would try to deny the oppressed the right to succeed as demonstrated by the repetition of the statement ‘I rise’ after mentioning many marginalized situations. The poem begins with the speaker declaring, with her heart and soul, that nothing nor no one could oppress her which can be demonstrated with the stressed syllable, ‘You.’ Keeping slavery in mind, the speaker is apathetic towards what the history books tell, for she believes the books are full of “twisted lies”.
However, she will not let others that “trod” her “in the very dirt”, disturb her as she declares that if she is trodden in the dirt, she will rise like dust. This is a poem directed towards tormentors. This is portrayed in lines 5-6 when she asks a question by referring to her tone as “sassiness” and questioning if her sassy tone is unsettling. She takes notices of the people surrounding her that are “beset with gloom” when she thrives and she questions this as well. She knows she is successful in many different fields of life which are symbolized in lines 7-8, “oil wells pumping in [her] living room”.
The structure of this poem differs from traditional with an irregular meter along with 4 tercets, 6 quatrains, 5 lines, and a couplet. The rhyme scheme ABCB brings the stanza together as the full rhymes—”eyes” and “cries”, “hard” and “backyard”, “surprise” and “thighs”— continue up to the last two stanzas when the scheme changes from ABCB to ABCC and AABB, adding more depth to the tone of triumph. This inconsistency of rhyme scheme creates a strong and defiant attitude towards how she was successful in overcoming racism in her life. Stanza three begins with a simile between the speaker and the moon and the suns as they are affected by the tides. This allows reader to comprehend that the speaker has no alternatives but to rise above her miseries. In this time period, it was society’s habit to keep people of color oppressed, but it’s also in her nature to rise above and stand against prejudice as it is the nature of the tides to respond to the moon.
Her nature to fight back towards the oppressors is portrayed when she continues to question the racist society whether her “haughtiness” is offensive as she is aware of the resentment from society seeing a black woman prideful and thriving.
In his triumph discourse in 2008, president Obama characterizes Nationalism as an arrangement of devoted qualities in the Unified States which were clear amid the 2008 races. He trusts that the gigantic quantities of individuals who spend numerous hours of their day lining to cast a ballot demonstrate the devoted soul of the American individuals and that they trusted their voices could have any kind of effect (Obama, 4). The president additionally characterizes Patriotism as meeting up and producing forward to accomplish the fantasies of the country. It likewise implies sharing an extensive variety of qualities including national solidarity, singular freedom and additionally confidence. This show hyphenated individuals can meet up and wind up strong as shake.
