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As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam. In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars.
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- About Georgia Douglas Johnson
The poem begins with the speakerdescribing how at dawn a woman’s heart is able to fly forth from her home like a “lone bird.” This is the only way that a woman is able to experience, even for a time, true freedom. A woman’s heart, described as a softly flying bird, travels over all the varying landscapes of the world below. She flies over valleys a...
Stanza One
The poet begins this piece by having her speaker describe one state in which a woman can exist. It is this first description, that takes up the majority of the first stanza, that will be longed for, and purposefully forgotten in the second stanza. She begins by describing how the “heart of a woman” is able to travel out from her body and take flight “with the dawn.” This description of freedom initially seems perfect, as if there is nothing more than one could want than to be able to travel w...
Stanza Two
The heart that was traveling so freely during the day “falls back with the night.” As night falls, and the day becomes dark, blocking women off from the world, the bird is forced to return home. While to some this might be a relief, in this contextthe bird has entered an “alien cage” when it finally returns. It has grown used to the world outside and is surprised to find itself trapped once more. Once inside this cage, and with no hope of escape, the bird and heart of a woman try to forget th...
Georgia Douglas Johnsonwas born in Atlanta, Georgia in September of 1877. She attended the Normal School of Atlanta University and graduated in 1893. After this, she taught for a time at schools in Atlanta and Marietta. She would go on to work as a school principal. In 1903, she married Henry Lincoln Johnson who was an attorney and politician. With...
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- October 9, 1995
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The Heart of a Woman, published in 1981, is the fourth installment of Maya Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. The success of her previous autobiographies and the publication of three volumes of poetry had brought Angelou a considerable amount of fame by 1981.
- Maya Angelou
- 1981
Jan 1, 2001 · Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous characters, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's eloquent prose her fondest dreams, deepest disappointments, and her dramatically tender relationship with her rebellious teenage son.
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The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam. In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The author’s fourth memoir chronicles the years 1957-1963 and finds Angelou in transition, moving across the country to New York City to join John Killens in the Harlem Writers...
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The emancipation of woman is yet to be wholly accomplished; though woman has stamped her image on every age of the world's history, and in the heart of almost every man since time began, it is only a little over half of a century since she has either spoke or acted with a sense of freedom.
