Maya Angelou

Question 1

My Arkansas

Answer 1

Title: pride? fondness? possession?
"Brooding" -gives the poem a cyclical structure.
"Sunrise seems to hesitate"
"Too much too red for comfort"
"The past is brighter yet"

Question 2

Still I rise

Answer 2

“I’m a black ocean leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear the tide”
“Out of the huts of history’s shame”
“Up from a past that’s rooted in pain”
“Leaving…terror and fear into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear”
“walk like i’ve got oil wells pumping in my living room”

Question 3

Just like Job

Answer 3

"Rose of Sharon"
"Screams searched the heavens for thee"
"Fears gather round like wolves in the dark" 
"Have you forgotten my name?"
"On Your word"

Question 4

In Retrospect

Answer 4

“pain of spring”

“Alone. I remember now”

Question 5

Phenomenal woman

Answer 5

“I’m not cute of built to fit a fashion mode’s size”
“fire in my eyes…flash of my teeth”
“Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman that’s me”
“they swarm around me like honey bees.”

Question 6

A Kind of Love, Some say

Answer 6

“is it true ribs can tell the kick of a beast”
“bruised bones”
“Hard impact.”
“Love by nature exacts a pain unequalled on the rack”
“Sorry eyes spoke not”