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Angelou's Ideas

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Love will always be there and will be able to set us free from all the hatred in this world. This is true in the Maya Angelou poem "Touched by an angel". In this poem she describes love as if it was leaving its holy temple to come to our sight and to liberate us into life. She has also given as clue in life that if we are bold and brave "love strikes away the claim of fear from our soul". Maya's idea or theme love can come in all shapes and size, even in the darkest moment in our life, love will always be there to set us free.

The author uses personifiction to convey the idea that if we are bold and brave love will strike away our fears. Maya describes love as if it were a human who "strike away the claim of fear from souls" and "Yet it is

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