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And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
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In the fourth stanza, the tree is a girl with jewels (a nest of robins) in her hair; and in the fifth, it is a chaste woman living alone with nature and with God. There is no warrant in the poem to say that it is different trees that remind the poet of these different types of people. [22]
Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect. "Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.(1815–43); Poems written in Youth(1845) 1798 The Reverie of Poor Susan 1797
In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and ...
Birthplace at 17 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Brunswick. Kilmer was born December 6, 1886, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, [5] the fourth and youngest child, [note 1] of Annie Ellen Kilburn (1849–1932), a minor writer and composer, [4] [6] and Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilmer (1851–1934), a physician and analytical chemist employed by the Johnson and Johnson Company and inventor of the company's ...
Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Clifford Alexander Jr. [6] and Adele Logan Alexander, a professor of African-American women's history at George Washington University and writer.
The poem's opening lines are renowned for their evocation of patriotic nostalgia: [3] Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there. Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime, including brushwood, elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches, whitethroats, swallows and thrushes.