... her career as a professional writer. "The unsettled life Angelou writes of in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, suggests a sense of self as perpetually in the process of becoming, of dying, and being reborn, in all its ramifications"(Ryan 13) . Angelou ends I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with the birth of her son, Guy. The caged bird at the end ... to persist the way she did. Maya Angelou has become a national celebrity since she read her poem, "On the Pulse of the Morning," at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Before that, she was probably best known for her autobiography I K...

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