Maya Angelou

As a child, Maya Angelou faced difficulties that no child should ever face. At the age of seven, Angelou was raped by a close friend of her grandmother. For years, Angelou struggled with her inner demons. When Angelou transitioned to a woman, stepping into her purpose, she embodied a sense of style in her work. In her line of work, she became a poet, an author, and an activist for the African American people while uniquely using her life struggles to converse to her audience in her style of poetry. Furthermore, she distinctively styled her poems by adding a motherly figure, while welcoming her southern roots to the world, and walking into being an African-American queen.
Maya Angelou has used her themes in poetry to to tell about the black
She stated, “she stands before the abortion clinic, confounded by the lack of choices. In the Welfare line, reduced to the pity of handouts. Ordained in the pulpit, shielded by the mysteries. In the operating room, husbanding life. In the choir loft, holding God in her throat. On lonely street corners, hawking her body. In the classroom, loving the children to understanding.” Just like her childhood as stated before - she faced trauma in her life making her seem like she's more of an nurture who loves her black babies and calls out the blatant disrespect of the black women and the black
In the poem, Angelou described herself as a queen to her audience. In correlation with black women being judged Angelou stepped into that average marginalized girl shoes, becoming her spiritual mother. Moreso, with Angelou dealing with her struggles she uniquely embraced the black girls struggles. One would say, Angelou helped defeat her demons while also helping others overcome their demons, too. To reiterate, Angelou was that outgoing mother vocalizing to her children that “ I’m not built to suit a fashion model size. I’m a woman phenomenally.Phenomenal woman, that's me.”(stanza 1). Purposely yet cleverly, Angelou included to her audience that she didn't fit into society’s beauty standards. In fact, Angelou tells her daughters that it's okay to be modest. “Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can’t touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them, They say they still can’t see. I say, It’s in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.”(stanza 4).
In conclusion, Maya Angelou has used her unique style in poetry to correlate her struggles with the marginalized community. Moreso, Angelou faced one of the most traumatic events in her life, which aided into her queendom. In result, Angelou's theme resonates in every poem she has written. Angelou’s core themes deal with her being a spiritual