Reflecting Group 6

This time period was rawer and everyone told the truth about what they were going through and about the things that were going on around them. There are many great authors in the time period Literature Since 1975.

1. Pick your favorite author and one of their poems and analyze it?
Or
2. Pick one of the authors that you do not like and analyze one of the poems you do not like?
This is my response to the question above, posted by Lakeshia…
One of my favorite authors of this time period is Maya Angelou
Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou, she describes the basic feelings and descriptions of a person that does not need loathing or people to try and lift her up. She shows us that she and all those oppressed in general are strong. We are shown some of the thoughts and feelings people have displayed against her, but the reality is she won't let them get her down. Her moral opulence allows her to rise above where her ancestors fell to slavery, carrying herself as a strong woman. Her ancestors' dream was to have a life in society without fear of what might happen (to them). The author is portrayed as this dream - this gift - her ancestors imagined. Still I Rise is a sublime, straightforward poem that acknowledges that we need not depend upon anyone else's opinion but our own. Maya expresses not only her good qualities, but also her unfavorable ones, yet even these are turned into positive ideas. This poem can only be read by us now because she has confidence in herself, her writing, and can express it so freely.