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Two works of African American women’s literature are Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and‚ Maya Angelou’s‚ "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Both stories give example to an oppressed character and the difficulties of their lives. Through description of character‚ language and their surroundings they tell that adventure. As well as these two works‚ “What to a Slave is the fourth of July‚” also shares a special connection to the literary works. These connections include the story
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He once sent me a poem by Maya Angelou. The poem included the line “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom”. The bird fears what it will encounter outside of its cage so it never attempts to escape. This bird longs for freedom so deeply that he even sings to it but the bird’s fear of change causes him to stay in the same situation even though the bird can easily get out of it
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school then gave birth to her son Guy at age 16‚ a few weeks after graduation. In the late 1950s‚ Maya began working with the Harlem Writer’s Guild and with the counseling of her friend‚ James Baldwin‚ she began working on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Lots of trouble came with that piece of literature back then‚ due to Maya’s honesty about being sexually assaulted at a young age. In 1954 and 1955‚ Maya toured Europe with the opera Porgy and Bess. She also studied Modern dance with renowned Martha
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dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.” in this quote Maya means that she feels weighed down but she is the caged bird and telling her story is how she opens her throat to sing. The next poem is “called mother to son” i believe mother to son is a about the author as a child and his mother is trying to tell him that her life was hard and if his life gets
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away afterward. Angelou explains‚ “if growing up was painful for the Southern Black girl‚ being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.” Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Introduction Summary Caged
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“His wings are clipped and feet are tied” shows how defenseless and mistreated he is. “So he opens his throat to sing” signifies that regardless the situation there will always be a cry for freedom and justice. Although Angelou never directly states race‚ she does manage to get the point across thought the anthem like song of freedom sung by the trapped caged bird. “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill” shows that even though he is still trapped and idle. Regardless of what comes his way he will
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career beginnings‚ later successes‚ and her personal life. Marguerite Annie Johnson (Maya Angelou) was born on April 4‚ 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is known for her 1969 memoir‚ I know Why the Cage Bird Sings‚ which made literacy history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. Multi-talented barely cover the depth and breadth of Maya Angelou’s accomplishments. Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Her parents split up when she
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Baldwin along with Robert Loomis‚ who was a book editor for Random House‚ proposed that Angelou write an autobiography that could also be a piece of literature--and with that Angelou began to work on what would later be titled I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (“Continuing”). Angelou accounts in the book that “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you‚” hence this book tells the story of Angelou’s life in the early 1930s to the 1970s and gives a historical account on what life was
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The Earth is home to over seven billion people who most of which are ordinary‚ but sometimes the world is presented with an incredibly unique individual that changes the world for years to come (World Population Clock). Maya Angelou was incredibly diverse with job titles ranging from dancer to civil rights activist‚ a very interesting childhood that shaped the rest of her life‚ and a legacy that will forever change the areas she was involved in. The poetry of Maya Angelou was greatly influenced
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