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In Maya Angelou’s poem , she points on that no matter what you do to her or how much you hurt me,

she will remain strong, confident, and wont show her pain. She is a powerful young women. She was born St.Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928. She was first named Marguerite Johnson. At the age of eight , she was raped by her mothers boyfriend, who was then killed by her uncle. Maya never talked after the event, she was silent for about six years. Maya then became a poet, novelist, a historian, and an educator. She was also much more then that.

Based on the words she uses she creates a detailed image in her readers mind as they read her poem. She uses hyperbole, metaphors, and imagery to express the way they feel. Angelou uses repetition, rhyme & rhetorical questions to have rythm with more images for the reader. She continues to say ” Still I Rise” because shes letting people know they cant hurt her,

Maya’s poem gives me a positive, strong, intense feeling. It makes me feel like this because no matter what life threw at her , she got up and was strong. She fought through the life lessons, and she came back twice as strong each and every time.

The “Still I Raise” poem is about Angelou’s battle against people who have tried to ruin her self-confidence down. Who’s Judged her in her past. It is a motivating poem because even though I didn’t expierence her past. I still understand her struggles as a young woman growing up. From my perspective Maya Angelou’s poem goes out to any & everybody who has ever doubted her.