Still I Rise, By Maya Angelou

Thomas Carlyle once told others “Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being”. Your culture helps you become the person you truly were meant to be and everyone has their own special culture. In the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou the poet uses motif, imagery, rhyme, and diction/syntax to create the idea that in your own culture you stay determined and you never give up when someone tries to bring you down. Your culture is your own and no one can ever change that from you.
To begin with, Maya Angelou starts out by what seems like a self-conversation changing her personality. She points out all her flaws that people have against her. The poet starts out using imagery to create good and bad