... to feel the impact behind Angelou's intentions. Priscilla R. Ramsey states the perfect reasoning behind why Angelou is such an active contributor to society when she says "While Maya Angelou's poetry may not have taken us into every nook and cranny of her long and complex life starting with the Lafayette County Training School--its various movements and insights have nonetheless ... her life. By employing this comparison to nature, the readers are more likely to reflect upon their own life. Angelou's use of allusion and nature is certainly a strong point in terms of causing the reader t...

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... which, whatever their subject, and is 'notable for literary form or expression'. Here the criterion is either aesthetic worth alone or worth in combination with general intellectual distinction. Within lyric poetry, drama, and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic aesthetic grounds; other books are picked for their reputation or intellectual eminence together with aesthetic value of a rather narrow kind ... usually much briefer than that of poets, playwrights, and novelists, are rarely limited to their strictly aesthetic merits. In practice, we get automatic and unprofes...

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