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The Poetic Stylings of Maya Angelou

The Poetic Stylings of Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou By: Tavaya Gibson Period 5 English 9 May 20, 2009. Table of Contents. Slide 1- Cover Slide 2 -Table of Content Slide 3 - Alone Slide 4- Touched by an angel Slide 5- Passing time Slide 6- The Detached Slide 7- Still I rise

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The Poetic Stylings of Maya Angelou

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  1. The Poetic Stylings of Maya Angelou Maya Angelou By: Tavaya Gibson Period 5 English 9 May 20, 2009

  2. Table of Contents • Slide 1- Cover • Slide 2 -Table of Content • Slide 3 - Alone • Slide 4- Touched by an angel • Slide 5- Passing time • Slide 6- The Detached • Slide 7- Still I rise • Slide 8- Biography • Slide 9- Intro to Poems • Slide 10- Glossary • Slide 11- Interpretation and opinion

  3. Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one thingAnd I don't believe I'm wrongThat nobody,But nobodyCan make it out here alone.Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone. There are some millionairesWith money they can't useTheir wives run round like bansheesTheir children sing the bluesThey've got expensive doctorsTo cure their hearts of stone.But nobodyNo, nobodyCan make it out here alone. Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone.Now if you listen closelyI'll tell you what I knowStorm clouds are gatheringThe wind is gonna blowThe race of man is sufferingAnd I can hear the moan,'Cause nobody,But nobodyCan make it out here alone.Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone. Alone http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-6/

  4. Touched by an angel • We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain.Yet if we are bold,love strikes away the chains of fearfrom our souls.We are weaned from our timidityIn the flush of love's lightwe dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.Yet it is only love http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/touched-by-an-angel/

  5. Passing Time • Your skin like dawnMine like muskOne paints the beginningof a certain end.The other, the end of asure beginning. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/passing-time/

  6. The Detached • We die, Welcoming Bluebeards to our darkening closets, Stranglers to our outstretched necks, Stranglers, who neither care norcare to know thatDEATH IS INTERNAL.We pray, Savoring sweet the teethed lies, Bellying the grounds before alien gods, Gods, who neither know norwish to know thatHELL IS INTERNAL.We love, Rubbing the nakednesses with gloved hands, Inverting our mouths in tongued kisses, Kisses that neither touch norcare to touch ifLOVE IS INTERNAL.

  7. You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?'Cause I walk like I've got oil wellsPumping in my living room.Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise.Did you want to see me broken?Bowed head and lowered eyes?Shoulders falling down like teardrops.Weakened by my soulful cries.Does my haughtiness offend you?Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold minesDiggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise.Does my sexiness upset you?Does it come as a surpriseThat I dance like I've got diamondsAt the meeting of my thighs?Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI riseI rise. Still I rise

  8. Biography • Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 24, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. • She grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. • She does many other things than write poetry. • She is also a historian, a dancer, a screen producer, a singer and a performer and a lot of other things. • Maya Angelou is the first black woman director in Hollywood. • She descended from the Mende people of West Africa. • At 16 she gave birth to a son, Guy. • Angelou's first book was I Know why the Caged bird sings. • The poem retells the first 17 years of her life. • She married Tosh Angelos a Greek sailor in 1952. • They were married for 3 years and then divorced. • In 2006, Angelou agreed to host a weekly radio show on XM Satellite Radio's Oprah & Friends channel. • She also teaches at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. • She has a lifetime position as the Reynolds professor of American Studies

  9. Intro to Her Poems • The first poem is called Alone. In this poem it tells how she feels alone. • The second poem is called Touched by an Angel. In this poem I think that she feels that an angel is watching over her. • The third poem is called is called Passing time. In this poem she explains how time is passing. • The fourth poem is called The Detached. In this poem I think she describes how she feels about certain things In her life and how away in her mind she is. • The fifth poem is called Still I rise. In this poem I think she explains how people tried to tear her down all her life and make her feel bad about herself. But despite there lies and bad comments she still rises to be the wonderful woman she is today.

  10. Glossary • Immure- to imprison. • Immutable -unchangeable • Preferability- worthy to be preferred. • Animadvert- to comment unfavorably or critically • Dumb- lacking some usual property, characteristic. • Publically- in a manner accessible to or observable by the public • Democracy- a state having such a form of government • Demobilizing- to discharge • Mobbism- a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence. • Artisanal- a person skilled in an applied art

  11. Interpretation and Opinion • I liked all of the poems. They all had a different theme and rhythm to them. But they were all similar because she wrote about real things and situations. She wrote her heart in soul in all her poems that’s why I chose Maya Angelou. The first poem was called Alone. I think she wrote this poem because she felt alone in the world. I also think there is more meaning than just saying that a person can't live alone, I think she means that we as a people can't live without the other people of this world. I really like this poem because it was used in the movie Poetic Justice. To me this poem has a lot of different meanings to it. A lot of people can get different feelings and emotions from this poem. The next poem is called Touched by an Angel. This poem is mainly about love. It has so many meanings and interpretations. This poem tells me that love has hardships and it has good times, but it is what truly frees us from our surroundings. We have not experienced life until we have felt a deep love for someone. Love brings us happiness as we experience this wonderful sensation inside of us. Love can also make us sad. It hurts when we embrace this pain. Love costs all we are and will ever be. Love releases us from everything. Love is such a great emotion we have been given.

  12. Interpretation and Opinion • The third poem is called Passing time. I think she wrote about how time is passing. In a way I think she was trying to tell people to enjoy life while it lasts. This poem can speak to different people. It is not a very long poem but it still speaks to you about life. The fourth poem is called The detached. I think she wrote this because she felt detached to someone or something in her life and she expressed her feelings in a heart felt poem. It also has something to do with life and death. When we die we detach from the people that love us dearly. But when were alive you can also detach from people. Daydreaming is a way to detach from other people for a little while. The last poem is called Still I rise. In this poem she expresses her feelings about how people have tried to pull her down and make her feel bad in her life. I like this poem because a lot of people can relate to it. I think she named it Still I rise because despite of how people treated her she still became who she is today. This poem is very inspiring to me. I can really relate to it because people try to tear me down and make me feel bad all the time but instead of falling down into a gutter like they wanted me to I stood tall and raised my head high. Maya Angelou is a very inspiring poet and a woman

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