A tough man.
A man. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
When Angelou says "gutting me and killing me" it shows how being raped had an impact on her life. This rape happened when Angelou moved back to her mother's house which was in Missouri. When she writes "a hard man, a cold man" it describes how her mother's boyfriend was a heartless man. At the end of the first stanza she writes "a man" this shows how Angelou was discouraged with many men one in which being her father because he just walked out of her life and this hurt Angelou deeply.
Being raped changed Angelou as a person although it was hard she tried moving on with her life. As a teenager, she moved back to California, . graduated from high school, and gave birth to her only child, Guy Johnson, himself a poet (Andrews 19). She married Tosh Angelou, divorced, remarried Paul de Feu in 1973, and divorced him also (Shelton 19). By the time Angelou was twenty, she had already been married and divorced twice and had no "real job." For a short period of time she experimented with prostitution and became a drug addict (Andrews 19). .
As time went on, she started to get a hold on her life. "In 1977, she had a .
part in the television adaption of Alex Haley's Roots, and received an Emmy Award nomination for best supporting actress" (Andrews 19). Angelou was an autobiographer, poet, playwright, director, producer, performance artist, educator, prolific author with a successful career as a singer, actress, and dancer. .
Since Angelou grew up during a time when prejudice towards blacks was a major issue many of her writings reflect this. One of her poems, entitled "Equality," shows how Angelou felt when others discriminated against her:.
Take the blinders from your vision,.
take the padding from your ears,.
and confess you've heard me crying,.
and admit you've seen my tears.
Equality, and I will be free. (21, 22, 23, 24, 29).
When Angelou writes "confess you've heard me crying, and admit you've seen my tears" displays how she also uses exacting imagery in her writing to paint a picture of how she was feeling.
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