Phenomenal woman

In “Phenomenal Woman” you can see just how much they value themselves. “ It’s in the reach of my arms, the span of my hips, the stride of my step, the curl of my lips”(6). Many wonder what’s the secret to black beauty and Maya simply states everything she loves about

appearance. As a result, people start to become unsocial, never go out, and feel as if they are at their lowest point. Suicide has even been a consideration. Unfortunately, this is a reality for many people in our society. In Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman”, she makes it clear that she will not let her appearance affect her. She is confident and happy with her body. Body image dissatisfaction is brought on by a low self-esteem that can be caused by the media and peers. Body image dissatisfaction

The song “Pretty Woman” talks of a guy meeting a beautiful looking female. The song is similar but cannot be compared to the meaning of a poem by Maya Angelou. Her poem Phenomenal Woman, talks about how she is not a “pretty woman,” yet that does not stop the men from looking and wondering about her. Maya Angelou uses imagery, tone, and the title to describe her view of herself compared to the “pretty woman” Imagery in the poem Phenomenal Woman is important. Maya Angelou uses imagery in the poem

believed that a woman should have fair-skin, hourglass figure and long hair to attain the title of ‘a beautiful woman’. This notion has degraded the stature of the entire female community instead of elevating it. The revolutionary poet, Maya Angelou, tried to break this notion by writing a poem to give tribute to ‘an average-looking woman’ who can become trendsetter and leader in her field of interest despite of not having fair-skin and the hourglass figure. In the poem “Phenomenal Woman”, the author

We watch society’s view of beauty on our TV’s, read about it in magazines and buy toy make up, dress up outfits, and Barbie dolls for our children. Allowing society’s to define how a woman should look and act. Driving most to failure while trying to reach society’s unrealistic expectations of what makes a woman beautiful and how she perceives herself. The poems “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy

Marguerite Johnson later known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Marguerite Johnson was raised in St. Louis, Missouri as well as Stamps, Arkansas. According to her website, Stamps at the time that she was raised, was the frontier of the South During the 1930s and 1940s when Johnson was growing up, Stamps ran rampant with racial discrimination and physical brutality. Marguerite was raised by her grandmother from 4 years old to 8 years old. Johnson came to live with

Maya Angelou wrote “Phenomenal Women” in 1995. “Maya Angelou was an African American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist” (Biography.com Editors). “Phenomenal Women” is about how a woman should be confident in her skin and should not care what someone else thinks about her. I imagine the speaker of this poem to be the author, Maya Angelou. “Phenomenal Women” would belong in chapter five, “Media and Culture,” of Women’s Voices Feminist Visions by Susan Shaw and Margaret

we see in the media is describing as the idea image. This image of a perfect woman is not real. In society today, there is no such thing as the perfect woman or man. Everyone has flaws or different features that set us apart from one another. In the second stanza “I walk into a room just as cool as you please,” talks about how a woman describes her body to show self-assuredness. Every action she describes how a woman can move a room as if she has complete control of that room. It shows that

the young woman by pointing out her flaws and pushing her to change. Soon she believes that to be beautiful she has to fit into a certain mold that society deems worthy. The young woman begins to change herself according to society’s standards. She changes her attitude, the way she speaks, and the way she appears. She loses the identity that renders her special. “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou, published in 1978, is about a woman who is immensely confident in how she looks. The woman explains how

This history shows how society since ages has focused on the beauty of women discussing how a woman should appear, objectifying her and setting up standards for a beautiful life for women. It is hard to follow the standards when all that is presented by the world is not hundred percent true, instead, it is a made-up need and not all women want to or need to follow these beauty standards. But however, women worry a lot about beauty that the how they appear physically, which is worthless after death