I am the dream and the hope of the slave. The very last stanza explains that yes, she comes from a very hard past, life wasn’t easy at all, she lived in fear but her past taught her to rise up and face and conquer her fears.īringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, She then says in the next paragraph that no matter the words they speak to her, the lies they make up and how much they disrespect her, she will still rise above it. Maya Angelou ’s poem Still I Rise, published in 1978, expresses the empowering message to rise above hate and pain. She asks does her happiness really make them that mad. She asks to people really want to see her broken, weak and beat down that much. She stops talking about rising for just a moment. She basically says she will rise like the moon, sun, tides and hopes. The third paragraph she starts looking at it from a more imaginable standpoint. She seems herself more than what they portray her to be. The second paragraph is about how people don’t like the amount of confidence she has in herself. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you Why are you beset with gloom ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. They dragged her name through the dirt, but she still rises above it. With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. The first paragraph talk about how they twisted her history, making her seem like someone she is not. This poem may seem very self explanatory but it is also very deep. If you have never heard of this poem it is placed below. This week I decided to analyze a very famous poem by a very famous woman, hero, author and role model Maya Angelou.
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