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Still I Rise. Maya Angelou. From Angelou’s collection And Still I Rise (1978). This poem is a response to society’s attitudes from black women. As Zora Neale Hurston another, black...
This poem echoes the strength in a person in many forms, the determination in I rise, I rise, I rise. It describes life's common experience when we are down. It makes us unite in the experience and have the hope, we shouldn't stay down. It's memorable.
Broadly speaking, the poem is an assertion of the dignity and resilience of marginalized people in the face of oppression. Because Angelou often wrote about blackness and black womanhood, "Still I Rise" can also be read more specifically as a critique of anti-black racism. Read the full text of “Still I Rise”.
But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise. That I dance like I’ve got diamonds. At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame. I rise. Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Still I rise (poem) Lyrics You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?
Maya Angelou. Still I Rise. You may write me down in history. With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells. Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides,
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Still I Rise’ is a poem by the American poet Maya Angelou (1928-2014), published in her 1978 collection And Still I Rise. A kind of protest poem which is defiant as well as celebratory, ‘Still I Rise’ is about the power of the human spirit to overcome discrimination and…
