![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The references to food being gone and rent being due suggest that life is a constant struggle for the Black Americans depicted in the poem, which takes its title from a prominent African-American district in New York. Here’s another poem in which racial inequality is tied to freedom, although poverty is another salient theme of the poem. The speaker is such a woman, who nevertheless finds something to call her ‘own’ when she looks to the sun, the rain, the oceans, and the mountains: nature’s bounty. This poem is perhaps the best example of this theme in Angelou’s poetry. Another important strand to her work is work itself: a focus on the daily menial tasks which many wives and mothers have to carry out around the home as part of their domestic duties. Many of Maya Angelou’s best-known poems focus on the plight of women, and specifically Black women. Yet Angelou tells us that the girl in the poem is ‘blameless’, inviting us to read the poem as about ‘mothers’ and ‘daughters’ in a wider sense: it is about the generational shift between African-American women of Angelou’s mother’s age, and those of Angelou’s own generation. The subject of the poem is a girl who goes home to her mother’s arms, afraid and ‘creeping’ because she fears she is in trouble. "Lying, thinking/Last night/How to find my soul a home" (Angelou, 1994 p.This is a poem about returning home. People need people, and the soul needs to have a home. The speaker of the poem argues that nobody can make it alone in the world. ![]() There are some pretty universal themes in this poem, isolation, suffering, spirituality, and classes of society. It starts off with the narrator lying in bed thinking as they are drifting off to sleep realizing no one can make it in this world alone. "Alone," "is a poem that crosses lines of color and race to provide a request to all human beings to come together and offer support to each other. This essay will demonstrate these themes in four of Angelou's poems. Angelou's poems are filled with a spirit of hope in the face of despair, courage in the face of injustice, and triumph in the face of oppression. As Angelou said in an interview, "There are no natural writers, but there are natural rememberers" (Angelou, 2002). Her natural experiences give her work authority and accuracy. Angelou's ability to overcome racism, oppression, and other obstacles made it's way into her literary works. She has received numerous awards including 3 Grammys, a Presidential Medal of Arts, and the Lincoln Medal. She worked steadfastly for peace, love, and equality with many individuals such as Malcolm X, and Dr. Maya Angelou's career has allowed her to make a difference in the world. She was the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since 1961. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," at President Bill Clinton's inauguration. She accepted a lifetime appointment in 1982, as a Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was an author, poet, actor, singer, songwriter, dancer, playwright, historian, director, and civil rights activist. She died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in St. ![]()
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