Human Family Figurative Language

“We are more alike my friends than we are unalike.” That was a quote from Maya Angelou’s poem titled, Human Family. Human family talks about the diversity and similarity in the world. Former president Barack Obama presented a speech when he was running for president, his speech was about America, it’s goals, it’s diversity, and its past. The theme in both of the pieces are similar in a sense that they both emphasize heavily on being united, diverse, and believing in wants right. But both authors go about proving their point, the authors uphold this theme through their different uses of figurative language, description, and format.

To start off, the first reason/example of how these two texts are alike yet different is through their different
Obama’s description in his speech i more cut and clear and not much symbolization to be interpreted giving it a more professional feel to help prove his point. But Angelou does use a symbolic style of description to paint her picture like in the second stanza in her poem, “Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality.” This is less cut and dry but like Obama’s, it still proves and develops the desired meaning, The final reason is that they each follow a different format, for example, Angelou’s is a poem, with rhymes, and symbols and stanzas. While Obama’s piece is a speech to be given in Philadelphia. He starts with some of America’s history mixed with Philadelphia's history, then he moves on to current day America and its goals and what should or shouldn’t be happening and then moves on to his personal history. But they both end with similar messages, Obama’s being, “This nation is more that the sum of its parts - that out of many, we are truly one.” While Angelou’s ends with the repeated phrase, “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” Both of these ending messages prove the theme of unity, diversity, and believing in what’s