Maya also uses some similes to compare how she’ll rise from the obstacles: “like air, I’ll rise” and “like dust, I’ll rise”. The reputation of the S and H are examples of alliteration, “Does my sassiness upset you” and “Huts of history’s shame”. Simile, metaphor, repetition, alliteration, assonance and irony as some of the literary devices used. Throughout the poem Maya is upset or angry but she also knows she is brave. The poem begins with a A-B-C-B meter, lies and rise rhyme making that B while A and C don’t have any rhymes in the first stanza. The speaker’s audience appears to be everyone who is reading the poem. “Out of the huts of history’s shame” insinuates slavery. For her poem “Still I Rise” Maya writes about the history of African Americans and how she faced the inhumane actions that took place. To go more in depth, Maya Angelou likes to write about political and social subjects. Throughout the poem Maya ask questions like “Did you want to see me broken?”. But even though she was treated poorly she exuded confidence, “sassiness” and “sexiness”. Maya explains how society wanted her to react to their cruelness, “Bowed head and lowered eyes”, “Shoulders falling down like teardrops”, “Weakened by my soulful cries”. The poem exhibits a conflict between her and how women are treated in society. Still I Rise is about the speaker, Maya Angelou, experience as a woman and how she was treated by society.
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