how to read Maya Angelous "They Went Home"
Gabrielle Mason
How to read Maya Angelous’ They Went Home
Maya Angelou’s poem really left my mind wondering so many things about her. I wouldn’t call the mood of this poem mysterious, but its pulls you in wanting more. You want to know why they went home. I see colors like red for this sexy, dangerous, independent woman that every man loves. She’s on fire. I see black from the ignorance from the men she’s dealing with. I also think this women is black or African American and dealing with African American men.
The speaker of this poem is a woman who is having affairs with married men that always leave and go back home to their wives. They go back home to their wives leaving this mystery woman behind, alone. The problem is they all go home. They don’t stay with her. They leave her like a one night stand. In the end she says, “They’d spend one night, or two or three, But...” this leaves you wanting to know what happened.
I see rhyming in this poem. When she rhymes words like wives, lives, clean, mean lips, wits, and hips. I found connotation in this poem. ” But... They went home”. She was basically saying they went back to their wives and didn’t stay with her. “My praises were on all men's lips” it was a metaphor for saying tall the men said good things about her. That was the things that they spoke or came out their mouths. I saw repetition when she said but they went home. The tone of the poem was a happy feeling from her that all the men felt this way about her. In the end it felt like she got hurt.
I think this poem is about an adored woman who has these affairs with married men. They love her and everything about her. In the end they always leave her and go back to their wives. The last sentence of the poem is not finished. “They’d spend one night, or two or three, But...” I think this means even if they spend all their time with you they will go back to their wives. I don’t think the men think they are worthy of this amazing women. They talk about how
How to read Maya Angelous’ They Went Home
Maya Angelou’s poem really left my mind wondering so many things about her. I wouldn’t call the mood of this poem mysterious, but its pulls you in wanting more. You want to know why they went home. I see colors like red for this sexy, dangerous, independent woman that every man loves. She’s on fire. I see black from the ignorance from the men she’s dealing with. I also think this women is black or African American and dealing with African American men.
The speaker of this poem is a woman who is having affairs with married men that always leave and go back home to their wives. They go back home to their wives leaving this mystery woman behind, alone. The problem is they all go home. They don’t stay with her. They leave her like a one night stand. In the end she says, “They’d spend one night, or two or three, But...” this leaves you wanting to know what happened.
I see rhyming in this poem. When she rhymes words like wives, lives, clean, mean lips, wits, and hips. I found connotation in this poem. ” But... They went home”. She was basically saying they went back to their wives and didn’t stay with her. “My praises were on all men's lips” it was a metaphor for saying tall the men said good things about her. That was the things that they spoke or came out their mouths. I saw repetition when she said but they went home. The tone of the poem was a happy feeling from her that all the men felt this way about her. In the end it felt like she got hurt.
I think this poem is about an adored woman who has these affairs with married men. They love her and everything about her. In the end they always leave her and go back to their wives. The last sentence of the poem is not finished. “They’d spend one night, or two or three, But...” I think this means even if they spend all their time with you they will go back to their wives. I don’t think the men think they are worthy of this amazing women. They talk about how