As a coloured woman Maya Angelou raises her voice and says that soon, black people will be free. In last poem ‘Caged Bird’, Maya Angelou shows underdevelopment of black woman due to tradition. ![]() She says that a black woman can be phenomenal woman through her confidence and good personality and proud herself being black woman. In the second poem, ‘Phenomenal Woman’, Maya Angelou describes a standard of beauty that beauty is not having beautiful face and slim smart body and thin lip. In the first poem ‘Still I Rise’, Maya Angelou presents black female as a leader of the movement and challenges the society arrangement about black people. The analysis has explained that black woman’s different images are depicted in Maya Angelou's poems. Thus, it can enable others to organize research on African-American females. This research gives rise to enhance the argument in literature studies particularly Black Feminism self-esteem. This study has been conducted by the use of black feminism theory and also focused on words, lines and stanzas. The researcher has chosen only three poems of Angelou from “The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou which are ‘Still I Rise’, ‘Phenomenal Woman’ and ‘Caged Bird’. After collecting data, the researcher has analyzed poems and supported by particular idea of feminist Sara Mills. This research has been conducted by qualitative and analytical method because this research has not numerical data. On the Pulse of Morning Mark Canoy/INQUIRER.In this research paper, the researcher has tried to find out the image of black female depicted in Maya Angelou's poems. And what better way to commemorate her influence on so many people than to revisit some of her most popular poems?Ģ. She even published two cookbooks in her later years, because cooking was a lifelong passion of hers.Įven a quick rundown of her life proves how much of a remarkable person Maya Angelou was. ![]() via GiphyĪnd while all this was going on, she was also writing. She continued her work for social justice well into the later years of her life, supporting and campaigning for then Senator Barack Obama to become the first African-American President of the United States. As a civil rights activist, she was a close friend to the likes of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She was also a theater actress, playwright, screenwriter, and composer. She first began with modern dance but reached popularity as a singer and performer of calypso music. In fact, she even wrote a book called “Gather Together in My Name” about her experience during those years of her life. She worked in the sex trade for some years as a prostitute, table dancer, and as a brothel manager-a fact she did not seek to hide from the public. ![]() She had her first born, a boy, at 17 years old.Īs an adult, Maya Angelou held a lot of jobs. She became the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco at 14, working while she was also studying at the California Labor School. As a child, she went through her parents’ separation, being sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend, and becoming mute for five years as a result of her belief that she caused the death of the man who raped her. A well-known poet and beloved icon of the civil rights movement of America, Maya Angelou had a difficult yet colorful life.
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