Still I Rise

             Long time ago the white people hated the black people in USA. They cannot live together in same place. There was a lot of fighting between them.  The American government tried to solve this problem until Mr. Obama became President of United State. In this time the American government showed all the people in this world there is no racism in United States. There is no difference between the white and black people. During this time there is a few of white people who hate the black people, but not like before. Maya Angelou wrote her poem to show us how she had power and energy.

             Angelou is a black woman.  She wrote the poem “Still I Rise.” She started her poem writing about the past and how she still rises even though she lived in that hard time when there was lot racism between the white and black people. She had more a patience when the white people didn’t like her: “You may trod me in the very dirt.” She said she didn’t care about them. She was proud because she is a black woman:  “‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells.” She also shows us in this line that she was like rich people.

            Angelou repeated wrote the line, “I rise,” in the poem. She said she’s like the heavens. She gives us the perfect image of the sunrise and the moon rise too. That means she will be rise every day “Just like moons and like suns.” She used questions mark in her poem a couple of times to show the reader that she challenged the people who hate her. She used emotional senses that made the reader think about her, and how she was strong, not weak, even though she experienced racism.

           Angelou wanted to show us her body. She wanted to say I have a sexy body even though I’m black. She asked the people who hate her why they are upset because she has a sexy body: “Does my sexiness upset you?” She said she was like any white women. She wanted to show the reader her body has value. “That I dance like I’ve got diamonds/At the meeting of my thighs?”         

            In the end of the poem Angelou wanted to leave a message for all black people. She is a black woman. She still rises even though she is black. She repeated words “I rise” to show the reader with those troubles in her life she still “rises”.  She had dream that the all black people will live in this world like white people: “I am the dream and the hope of the slave/I rise /I rise/ I rise.”