Two Pesentations of Love in Maya Angelou's Poems: ‘A Kind of Love, Some Say’ and ‘Where We Belong, A Duet’

One way in which the poets present their ideas about the pain of love is through their use of imagery with their poems. For example, they both use metaphors about being ‘wounded’. Fenton’s line ‘I’m one of your talking wounded’ adopts a pun which relates to the expression ‘walking wounded’, used by soldiers to imply

The third and fourth stanzas offer the poems greatest paradoxes. The author speaks of the lovers being "At this unique distance from isolation" which is to say they are in the one place where they can truly be themselves, in their natural habitat, doing that which is only natural to human instinct. Despite these circumstances, however, the two are at a loss: "It becomes still more difficult to find / Words at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind." It is through this final stanza that the author conveys the ultimate paradox of human relationships: Relationships are not built upon true love for one another; rather they are built upon the absence of hatred.

Maya Angelou’s poetry occupies a very special position in her development as a writer (Chow 1). As a child, Angelou went through five years of complete silence after she was raped at the age of seven years old, by a man named, Mr. Freeman. As a result of telling about her traumatic experience, her uncle’s literally kicked the man that raped her to death. Beings she spoke of her traumatic experience and the result of the man dying, she then imagined that her voice had the potential to kill. Thanks to her teacher, Bertha Flowers, at school Angelou started writing poetry as a means of expression of her life events through her poetry (Chow 1). Poetry thus played an essential part in the recovery of her voice, which in

The third stanza goes on to define the pain, only now in more emotional terms, such as "It hurts to thwart the reflexes / of grab, of clutch" (14-15), as well as the pain of continuously having to say good bye, each perhaps as if for the last time: "to love and let / go again and again" (15-16). These lines reinforce the impression that the first stanza's definition of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the relationship. We also learn that she believes love requires work, which she cannot do without her partner's assistance, and that this lack of cooperation frustrates her. She believes this neglected effort is the other party's fault by his failure to do his fair share, thereby leaving her own efforts ineffective, the whole of it characterized as an effort "that gutters like a candle in a cave / without air" (19-20). Her demands of this work are quite broad, encompassing being "conscious, conscientious and concrete" in her efforts and optimistically calling this work "constructive" (20-21) before ending the stanza.

Her poems speak about the turmoil our world is in. She encourages us to love, love, and love. (Source card #4)      In her poem "Human Family", Angelou says, "We are more alike, my friends, then we are unlike." Maya's poems, which include "Equality" and "These yet to be United States", show the pain of humanity and the ignorance of the world. My favorite poem "Phenomenal Woman" shows what it's like to be a woman now a days. "I think the most impressive thing about Maya Angelou's poetry is that it is purely honest.

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

Perhaps the reason that Maya’s poetry has had such a lasting impact on Americans is because of her poems such as ‘Caged Birds’ and ‘Still I Rise’ that demonstrate the issues that African – Americans faced, which she has done through the power of her words. She also challenges the readers with the theme of oppression that is carried out through her pomes as she felt very strongly about it by being surrounded by it her entire life. Maya Angelou has left an everlasting mark by influencing the society through her poems by inspiring others to persist towards their goals and dreams with strength and pride. Overall, Maya Angelou’s work can be attributed to the fact that her personal and cultural experiences of power have not been forgotten by overcoming adversity and oppression, which is clearly reflected in her inspiration body of work seen

This is supported through his grievous diction throughout the poem. Through words like “loving”, Gascoigne uses his word choice to craft physical descriptions of the grief created in the man. The reader is able to create a picture in their mind of a male holding his head low due to his misery. This allows the reader to understand the ways in which gloom affects his outward appearance in society. Additionally, the usage of “grievous” in describing the game of love represents the outlook he’s developed due to the emotional damage caused by broken relationships full of lies and mistakes. He has learned that following the sudden attraction towards a woman, the process of forming and maintaining a healthy relationship is a hard process without much sense. Lastly, another example of these melancholy-associated words is “bale” in the final line. The captivating eyes of the woman are representative of his initial attraction physically towards the female, but now looking into them leads to feelings of despair and misery. Through these words (“loving”, “grievous”, and “bale”), Gascoigne has represented the emotional sadness and misery due to a broken relationship and established a mournful tone to accompany the previously addressed lesson learned from being hurt from

Though both poets were put down by society, neither let what people said get to them. Both instead wrote poems about how what people say doesn 't matter. Maya told those people that despite what you say, I will still rise.

Loyalty, it is just a word right, well guess again, it is a way of life. Loyalty is all over the place, but right here in this paper is where it can be found. There are numerous synonyms of the word loyalty. Allegiance and devotion and those are just a couple. There are also antonyms, for example treachery, and disregard. Loyalty came from the mid 16th century: from French , via Old French, and from Latin. This is important because you have to stay loyal to a book when you are reading it, and you actullay have to read it. It is important to realize that when you are reading a book to see how the author was loyal to his characters and the audience. It is not always about reading when you have to stay loyal. When you have a pet and the way they feel about you, that is loyalty. They will never have the same feelings towards another human as they do for you. Your pet will have full enthusiasm for you as owner , just like you do for them as a pet. When you are in a relationship, whether it is boyfriend and girlfriend, or friend to friend, you have to stay committed to that relationship, no ifs ands or buts. Non fiction literature shows this all the time. For example in Maya Angelou, she was loyal to her family, and her family was loyal to her. Also in Warriors Don’t Cry, they were loyal to getting an education and loyal to themselves. Another example would be in the non fiction literature of Friday Night Lights, she was loyal to the game and to his feelings of the game. Loyalty is all over the place, but right here, right now, it is in front of you.

Through an examination of the female experience, Maya Angelou's Still I Rise (1978) and Anne Sexton's Her Kind (1960) utilise the authors' individual styles to inspire and shape our understanding of oppression and empowerment. In the difference in presentation of their common themes, the implications of different styles are shaped. Though there are similarities between the poets, it is the way they choose to utilise literary devices that creates a text that resonates with the audience in different ways.

One may have feelings for another; it is natural. When faced with rejection, however, the result is ruinous. In the poem, “Love Song, with Two Goldfish”, a goldfish was infatuated with another fish. However, the former was rejected because he “could not give a life beyond the bowl.” She rejected him because of the rash promises he had made, something that made the latter miserable. He expected joy, but was met with pain. Intolerance is common among relationships as most don’t see them as a pleasure, but more of a detriment. In the poem, “What Love Isn’t”, Ward reflects on her experience with love and how much it irritated her. She says, “it is weight and it is too heavy to feel good sometimes. It is discomfort.” Instead of the passion and happiness one experiences in a relationship, Ward had none of it and only went through pain. The pressure of such a romance gave her unneeded agony. While love is depicted as a passionate and beautiful experience, it is a painful one filled with rejection and

The poem, “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne exemplifies how the speaker suffered from love, something that many people believe one should feel positive about. The title delivers a despairing tone by allowing the audience to believe that the speaker can no longer look the woman he loved in the eye. Conflicting with the despairing tone, the speaker develops a complex attitude with the use of structure, metaphors, diction, and desire.

Sylvia Plath wrote “Mad Girl’s Love Song” in the early fifties while she was an undergraduate college student. The poem is written in the villanelle poetic form of which it reflects not only the rigorous fixed format, nineteen-line with two repeating rhymes and two refrains, but also the melancholic tone and rhythm of the traditional danced song—in vogue in Italy and France during the sixteenth century—in which its roots lie. The title itself offers a plausible explanation for the villanelle poetic form chosen by the author, which a strict metric certainly helps to convey the sense of torment and alienation that emerges from the repeated verses throughout the poem. A rising crescendo from one stanza to the next builds tension together with a pervasive sense of disenchantment as retracing the ritual passage from childish innocence to an adulthood devoid of illusions. On the surface, Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” portrays the inner struggle of a young damsel tormented by far-lost love, which faded memories insinuate in her the doubt it has ever existed. The poem suggests that love is something ephemeral and unrealistic by its very nature; thus, it is only by appealing to reason one distinguishes imagination from reality, life from death, flowing in that eternal dance of dualities inherent in the nature of all things.

Sylvia Plath wrote the poem “Mad Girl’s Love Song” in the early fifties while she was an undergraduate college student. The poem is written in the villanelle poetic form of which it reflects not only the rigorous fixed form, nineteen-line with two repeating rhymes and two refrains but also the melancholic tone and rhythm of the traditional danced song—in vogue in Italy and France during the sixteenth century—in which its roots lie. The title itself may be an explanation of the author's choice of using this poetic genre; a choice of genre that certainly helps to convey the sense of torment and alienation that emerges from the repeated verses throughout the poem. A rising crescendo from one stanza to the next builds tension together with a pervasive sense of disenchantment as retracing the ritual passage from childish innocence to adulthood devoid of illusions. On the surface, Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” portrays the inner struggle of a young girl tormented by far-lost love, which faded memories insinuate in her the doubt it has ever existed. The poem suggests that love is something ephemeral and unrealistic by its very nature; thus, it is only by taking the distances one may distinguish imagination from reality, live from death in an eternal dance of dualities inherent in the nature of all things.