So I feel like she asks these question to the people who look down upon her in a very comical voice to show that whatever that was throw at her will bounce back. She asks, ‘Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries?’ Maya herself is fully aware of what her ancestor been though, and how her success in the industry was received with bitterness by racist people. The speaker (Maya) again questions the oppressor’s in a pertinent, direct, and appropriately accusing tone. In the poem, Stanza four, have a very accusing tone to it.
#Maya angelou still i rise meaning full#
She is comparing herself to the element which is timeless and full of strength.
This quote shows how certain of Maya of herself and how certain she is when it comes with facing off obstacles.
And like these two things, she will rise and had high hope. These two things will always be going up in the sky 100% all the time. Stanza three: ‘Just like moons and like the sun, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I rise.’ The sunrise every morning, the moon rises every night. This quote is a metaphor because if a person had an oil well within their house, of course, they will be so happy that they will walk with confidence all the time. She is not weighed down by his oppression at all. She is mocking the oppressor’s within the poem by stating clearly how her self-assured walk must be depressing for him. Conversely, her statement, ‘ Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.’ says that she is very confident of who she is. She already knows why the oppressors are feeling unhappy, but still, she asks the oppressors, ‘Does my sassiness upset you?, Why are you beset with gloom?’ She asks these questions in a very cheeky way that make the reader understand the funny intention. What intriguing me the most about stanza two is that this time, Maya goes into the oppressor’s emotion. While on the other hand, stanza Two had a very cheeky, comical, and confident tone to it. And as this poem stated, they maybe treat like the dirt in the grown where people step on, but like the dust, they will rise and at the same time choose to live and see what the world had to offer. They continue to live and show others that they live with hope. They rise against whatever prejudice they had to face. She will not let that impact her in a negative way and like the dust, she rises above these negative stuff and continues with her life. She also says, that even though white oppressors may treat her and her ancestor with enormous disrespect and violence. Maya stated in this part of the poem that the history book created by the oppressors had portrayed her ancestors in a bad light, which arouse hostility to her community. While ‘I’ addressed to herself and her ancestor. And by other, I believe it is addressed to the white oppressors of black persons. Stanza one starts off with, ‘You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.’ This part of the poem had a bitter and angry tone to it implied by Maya words choice of the words ‘bitter” and “twisted.’ While on the other hand, the word ‘You’ clearly addressed to others. Stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem, for example, a verse. ‘Still I Rise,’ is divided into nine stanza. The poem also addresses to the white oppressors of black persons by presenting us with a black woman willing to speak up for herself and her black ancestors. She will survive and rise while keeping her head high with self-respect because she is proud of what she is and who she was. Nevertheless, the poem is also about how she never let all of these struggle effect her. The poem describes the way people judge her, the obstacles she faces during her lifetime, and the adversity in her life. It is one of Maya Angelou’s most popular poems. The poem “Still I Rise”, is a very empowering poem all about the struggle to overcome prejudice and injustice.
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