“Still i Rise” Analysis
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou is one among several poems in her collection of poems titled Still I Rise. It is a poem about adversity but, more importantly, it is a poem about rising from adversity. It is easy to decipher this from the very lines of the poem. She talks about being trodden down in dirt and being recorded in a negative light by history. But from all this still, the poet rises. From the adversity, she rises. […]