1. Maya Angelou on Aloneness
In these lines, Angelou talks about her wishes in this hunt, saying that she wants to find her "soul a home" (3) "Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone"(4-5). At first, it seems really confusing because it's very contradictory for "water" to be "thirsty" since it's supposed to quench a human being and it'd be weird for "bread loaf" to be "stone.... The notion of the bread is stone is also interesting in regards that it refers back to the bible when Satan tries to convince Jesus to turn stones to bread. By s...
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