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The poem Still I Rise by Maya Angelou is about self-belief and oppression in America.
Maya Angelou wrote the poem because it is her experience on racism in America.
In the final stanza, Maya Angelou repeats, ‘I rise’ five-time to betray the effect of this repetition is because she rises’ more than once. That means that whatever gets through times she will rise throughout her life.
“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
This metaphor is significant because the other lines in the stanza juxtapose with the last line “ but still, like air, I’ll rise. There are three violent lines and one light line.
“ you may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, ill rise.
No matter how many u trod her in the dust she will still rise like dust
“Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides.”
Maya Angelou suggesting that it is human nature to recover
She compears herself to the moon, sun, and tides because they will always come back.
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