Analysis of Works of Poetry

Full Overview: Read all articles and share your thoughts on each one separately. It is crucial that you do not mix or combine the two articles. You can place them on the same page, but be sure to write about Part 1 in Part 1 and Part 2 in Part 2, etc. We will combine all summaries later. Please label each article summary clearly to make it easier to reference later.

Read the “ Caged Bird” article and share your thoughts and opinions about it based on the questions below. Please ensure that your responses focus on the topic, include at least one reference from the text, and demonstrate above-average insight. Acknowledge at least three of the different literary works mentioned throughout the posts. Lastly, the length of the assignment must be at least 1 paragraph.
Caged Bird questions
• How does Angelou both reference and rewrite Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Sympathy?”
• How does Angelou address issues related to the Black experience in present times as well as the historical and even the future?
• How does she use metaphors, similes, imagery, and symbolism to convey ideas in her poems?

Part 1 Link- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird

Read the “Still I Rise” article and share your thoughts and opinions about it based on the questions below. Please ensure that your responses focus on the topic, include at least one reference from the text, and demonstrate above-average insight. Acknowledge at least three of the different literary works mentioned throughout the posts. Lastly, the length of the assignment must be at least 1 paragraph.
Still I Rise
• How does Angelou address issues related to the Black experience in present times as well as the historical and even the future?
• How does she use metaphors, similes, imagery, and symbolism to convey ideas in her poems?
• What ideas about both Black womanhood and womanhood overall do the poems explore?
• What do the poems indicate about ideas related to women? About empowerment?
Part 2 Link- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

Read “Phenomenal Woman” article and share your thoughts and opinions about it based on the questions below. Please ensure that your responses focus on the topic, include at least one reference from the text, and demonstrate above-average insight. Acknowledge at least three of the different literary works mentioned throughout the posts. Lastly, the length of the assignment must be at least 1 paragraph.
Phenomenal Woman
• How does Angelou address issues related to the Black experience in present times as well as the historical and even the future?
• How does she use metaphors, similes, imagery, and symbolism to convey ideas in her poems?
• What ideas about both Black womanhood and womanhood overall do the poems explore?
• What do the poems indicate about ideas related to women? About empowerment?
Part 3 Link- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48985/phenomenal-woman

Read “The Day before the Revolution” article and share your thoughts and opinions about it based on the questions below. Please ensure that your responses focus on the topic, include at least one reference from the text, and demonstrate above-average insight. Acknowledge at least three of the different literary works mentioned throughout the posts. Lastly, the length of the assignment must be at least 1 paragraph.
The Day before the Revolution
(Only select 2 best questions to answer in the form of a paragraph
• Set in a future and different world, how does Le Guin’s story use science fiction to explore different issues in the story?
• How does the story make a commentary on present-day society?
• What issues related to women does the story delve into? Related to identity?
• What ideas does the story raise about progress? How does the idea of the “utopian” tie into that?
• What does the story say about the idea of utopia or a utopian society? Can one ever exist? Why or why not?
Part 4 link- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-day-before-the-revolution