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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.
With four stanzas and sixteen lines, each containing eight syllables, the poem has a rather uncomplicated structure. [7] The poem is most known for its themes of willpower and strength in the face of adversity, much of which is drawn from the horrible fate assigned to many amputees of the day—gangrene and death. [8]
[18] This testifies to Clifton's reputation as a poet whose work focuses on overcoming adversity, family, and endurance from the perspective of an African-American woman. In 2010, Clifton received the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. [24] [25]
Despite adversity and racism, Angelou expresses her faith that one will overcome and triumph. Like her previous poetry collections, Angelou's fourth volume, Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? , celebrates the ability to survive despite threatened freedom, lost love, and defeated dreams.
"The Hill We Climb" is a spoken word poem written by American poet Amanda Gorman and recited by her at the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021. The poem was written in the weeks following the 2020 United States presidential election , with significant passages written on the night of January 6, 2021, in response ...
the first has somehow, in some way, been my best year yet. So, as I often say to participants in the workshop, “If a school teacher from Nebraska can do it, so can you!”
“Some people are very focused on the grief,” DuVernay said. “Some people are focused on the romance between her and her husband and the ways in which that speaks to them.
A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010. [11] [12] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness.[13]Read was poet in residence from 2011-2021 at The Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs, which is an eparchial-rite form of consecrated life under the jurisdiction of Bishop Bryan Bayda, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon. [14]