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"Drifter": A short poem on unanswered questions with hidden meaning, such as “why rain falls, what makes corn proud and squash so humble." [2] "The Perceiving Self" (Written in Fort Scott, Kansas): A detailed description of the sighting of George Carver. Carver, “the music shaped and colored by brown lips, white teeth, pink tongue."
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
At 44, I’m still building my own unflappable confidence so when I hear, for example, that I’ve been passed up for a freelance editor job, I don’t immediately plunge into self-doubt.
"I know every morning when I get up and write a poem that I am still alive, too," writes Jane Yolen, author of more than 450 books.
"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses , in the section titled "Life and Death (Echoes)".
The "self" serves as a human ideal; in contrast to the archetypal self in epic poetry, this self is one of the common people rather than a hero. [10] Nevertheless, Whitman locates heroism in every individual as an expression of the whole (the "leaf" among the "grass").
One’s-Self I sing, a simple, separate person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word en-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe, I sing; Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse I say the Form complete is worthier far; The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,