Category: Still I Rise

If we had to choose two poems that show how hope and self-confidence is important in our lives, they have to be Taylor Mails What teachers make and Maya Angelous Still I rise. Those two poems excel at communicating meaning using literary and stylistic devices such as imagery or tone. Their use of language makes…

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, takes place in the 19th century, where women had hardly any rights, no opportunities and were expected to be a stereotypical housewife. The story is based upon a married woman who has underlying heart conditions. The wifes name is Mrs. Mallard, she was told that her husband…

Still I Rise, was written by African American poet whose name was Maya Angelou (1928 to 2014). Here poet has a bold belief in herself that she cannot be discriminated on the means of colour and that nobody took away her rights and freedom from her. The people who are white in colour dont have…

Both poems still i rise by Maya Angelou and disabled by Wilfred Owen explore the theme of the past and its consequences upon the present. Still i rise is a positive and almost defiant piece of lyrical poetry refusing to allow the poet’s troubled past to affect her present. it shows Angelou’s willpower and how…