Maya Angelou Essays

Maya Angelou is an American author, poet, playwright, editor, director, actress, and teacher. She is internationally recognized, and has written best-selling titles such as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, “Gather Together in My Name”, “Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting Merry Like Christmas”, and “The Heart of a Woman”. …

Poetry is such an important way of expressing themes, ideas and feelings in a condensed form. ‘Caged bird’ is a poem written by Maya Angelou and ‘Nothings Changed’ is written by Tatamkhulu Afrika. ‘Caged Bird’ is about ‘Freedom’. In this poem Angelou relates back to how Black Americans were treated …

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St Louis, Missouri. Her life has been through many highs and lows, such as experiencing rape by her step father, death in the family, she went mute, early pregnancy, activism and success with her writing and being recognised by …

Warning by jenny joseph is a humorous way of looking towards old age. It is written as a monologue within which the poet describes how she will behave when she is an old woman. In The first stanza she talks about herself and lists all the things she will do …

I will first write a brief overview of each poem, starting with ‘ Still I Rise ‘ Still I Rise has seven stanzas, each with a definate rhyme scheme of ABCB, with the endings of the second and last lines rhyming. The Poem is written to be read with one …

“I know why the caged bird sings” is one of the six autobiographies written by Maya Angelou. I think that she has written this book to show people that even though some people can have a disturbed childhood they can still achieve highly in life. The story is mainly set …

“I know why the caged bird Sing” written by Maya Angelou is a amazing and inspiration autobiography about a black girl growing up in the American South in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Although, Maya had many difficulties in her life, she always found away to overcome each battle and with …

“I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such moving wonder, such a luminous dignity”. With these words, James Baldwin, who mentored and motivated Maya Angelou to write her autobiographical novel, I Know Why The Caged Bird …

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou explores themes of Social injustice, Lack of freedom/choice and Shattered dreams in six stanzas of varying length. There is no set rhyme scheme to the poem but there are noticeable rhymes in stanzas two, three, four and five. Stanza six is a repetition of stanza …

Caged Bird analysisIn the poem Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, we can see that the themes are the lack of freedom, but also the hope for it. This emotion filled poem compares and contrasts the life of two birds. One symbolizing freedom, someone who has got it all but still …