Marguerite Johnson was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis,
Missouri she goes by the name of Maya Angelou she’s a poet who’s currently
alive at the age of eighty five years old. Marguerite is not only known for
being a poet but she’s a singer, song writer, activist, and editor. She’s best
known for her seven published autobiographies which were based on her childhood
and adult life. Maya Angelou have worked with both important people Malcolm X
and Martin Luther King she also in 1993 she read her poem at the White house
for Bill Clinton she was the first poet to do so since 1961 The first one was published in 1969 which was
called “I know why the caged birds songs”. The poem I choose by Maya Angelou is called “Alone”
the reason why I choose this poem because I feel it’s very real and true. In the poem she talks about poverty and
millionaires and it how it doesn’t matter because no one can make it in this
world alone which I defiantly agree with.
In the poem Alone in
the first stanza (1-3) “How to find my soul a home where water is not thirsty and
bread loaf is not stone” this is symbolic action which can mean that Maya is
saying people are in need of help which can be poverty. Bread isn’t stone but it
may feel that way to someone who is possibly is in need of service, water isn’t
thirsty but if you’re a person who homeless it may feel that way. The second stanza
(1-6) “There are some millionaires With money they can't use their wives
run round like banshees, their children sing the blues,They've got expensive doctors to cure
their hearts of stone”. The symbolic action behind this would be that people
who are considered to have money still have problems and need help like
everyone else. The second stanza (1-6) ” Now
if you listen closely, I'll tell you what I know, Storm clouds are gathering,
The wind is gonna blow, The race of man is suffering, And I can hear the moan”.
I believe the symbolic action is that life is going to take its course but
people are still anguish and in pain and everyone knows but people need help
they can’t do it alone.
I
think the major symbols of the poem are “Alone, all alone, Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone”. Which
basically mean being alone means being by yourself with no one around and can
make it out here alone is saying you’re in this world but you can’t survive on
your own. After each stanza “alone,
alone nobody but nobody can make it out here alone “ is always right after
clearly reminding and stating that no matter what your situation is you need
help you need guidance. That’s really my understanding of those words when you
read them word by word and put them together. It comes back to what the overall
message of the poem is.
After
reading the poem over and over I can’t help but think the poem is about the world
and how people are in need of help, they are suffering. The people who have
money and the people who don’t we are equally the same because we all have this
need for help. The poem talks about different situations but it still comes
back to full circle basically saying the same thing.We all are the people of the world and we cannot live without each other we need each other in order to survive. It doesn't matter if your rich or poor the saying goes for everyone. I think this poem is all about humanity and the importance of it.Humanity effects everyone, I think Maya goal with this poem was to talk about but in the best way she could which through poetry.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-6/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou
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