- The poem is about how a black women named Maya Angelou with lots of hope overcame oppression and how she has suffered plus how she is now physically and mentally scared due to such bad experiences.
2. I think Angelou wrote the poem to show that no matter how tough life life is or how hard it gets you can rise above it.Ithink Angelou also wrote the poem to give people hope and happiness .
3. The effect of the repetition is that when she was put through so much Angelou speaks for herself and all others in the same situation She rose above it all and wants all others to the same. When Angelou says “Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear” she is referring to after all of the bad things that has happened to her and what she has been through she rises above all of it and creates an amazing clear day for the clear slate she has made herself.
4a. The simile “Cause I laugh like I got gold mines diggin’ in my own backyard”. This is saying when she gets put down she just gets up and laughs it off like she is rich She might also be rich with happiness from all of all her success. She is also very defiant. This is significant to the poem because after all of the bad stuff she has gone through she has come out the other side better than ever. This also relates to all of the other people that have been through some form of bad experiences knowing that they have the power to rise up and completely turn their lives around
4b. The simile”But still, like air, I’ll rise” is significant to the poem dueto how easily she got back up after a bad experience just like air and then got on with living her life this can relate to other people in the same way because everytime people have a bad experience they focus on the bad so they don’t focus on the good things in life and what they learned about that situation and how they have benefitted from it.
4c. The metaphor “I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.” This is significant because you can’t move an ocean. It is too powerful and Maya Angelou is saying that she is a raging ocean welling, swelling and leaping. This means that you can’t move her; she is too powerful to move or harm. In the Metaphor Angelou has put an internal rhyme that adds to the effect to say that even the line can’t stop and it also speeds up the line to make it faster all up.
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