Still I Rise Maya Angelou Tone

"Still I Rise," by the African American writer Maya Angelou (1928–), offers a fascinating blend of tones: energetic and resistant, diverting and furious, confident and intense. At last, nonetheless, the sonnet's tone, as the work's title proposes, is triumphant.

The sonnet's first word—"You"— is essential. This is a ballad unmistakably tended to others. It is not just a private, verse contemplation. Quite a bit of its vitality gets from its intense and brazen self-self-assuredness. Plainly tended to the white oppressors of dark persons, the sonnet presents us with a dark lady willing to talk up for herself, for other living blacks, and notwithstanding for her dark predecessors. The ballad is both exceedingly political and exceptionally individual. The speaker is verifiably reacting to decades and even hundreds of years of abuse and abuse. Her tone, then, never sounds egotistical or presumptuous. Rather, most perusers are liable to feel tremendous sensitivity for her lively dismissal of further mistreatment.

It appears to be exceedingly noteworthy that the first sort of abuse the speaker notice is
Allegorically, to tread someone else into the soil is to treat that individual with huge disregard and verging on stunning savagery. Yet no sooner does the speaker envision being mishandled along these lines than she quickly reacts, "Yet at the same time, similar to clean, I'll rise" (4). The reference to "tidy" is differently successful. It infers that something regularly seen as negative can rather be seen as positive. It infers that something typically appear as just vexatious can really have a sort of versatility and quality. It infers that something ordinarily thought to be anything but difficult to control can, just in light of its pervasiveness and volume, make