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I believe the poem is stated that no matter what people think you have to stay strong and do not care for others people opinion.

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I believe that this poem is about a strong women who won't let anyone break her. She has most likely dealt with racist people in the past and present that tried to break her. This poem showed all the ways people tried to cut her down. You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

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This poem states that strength and  how it comes from within you. In the poem it talks about how you can stay strong even when you feel like you can't or when you feel like times are just way to hard you have the strength from within you to get through it.

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This poem was talking about strength coming from within, and how you can stay strong through tough times even when nobody is in your corner. In the poem, it says "You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.". This means that even though people are breaking her down, she will only fall for a little while. She always gets back up, no matter what.

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Maya Angelou's poem, "Still I Rise", seems to be about what she has overcome and her strength. That no matter the hurt she has experienced, she will still rise. People seemed to have looked down on her, hoping to break her down. Stanza 4 states, "Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like tear drops, weakened by my soulful cries?" Responding to that, she wasn't going to give them the reaction they wanted. She gave numerous examples of how she will rise. Those examples consisted of nature. Nature is a form of a repeated cycle that is never ending. The examples she used are dealing with the sun and moon rising, the stars, the tides, etc. These all rise at a certain time of day, everyday. To depict a stronger poem of her phrase, "I will rise".

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Mariah and I were talking how Maya was able to put her point across in the poem, she described her feelings where we were able to visualize everything she was talking about. Maya wanted everyone to know that no matter how hard they tried knocking her down she was gonna get right back up and rise and prove to everyone that she is stronger. She spoke strong words through the poem. Maya has become a stronger woman through years and years of hurt we felt like, and she was never gonna let anyone feel that way again, nobody was gonna make her feel less of she she is, or they made her feel in the past.

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My partner and believe that the meaning behind the poem is that no matter what is to happen or no matter how people look at her that she does care for it because she still continues to go on as the poet says "You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise."

and the word the poet word choices in this poem just ties everything perfectly together with the whole reasons that the poet had for writing this.

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My partner, Gabrielle, and I were talking about how Maya Angelou had this strong personality and how she isn't going to be pushed around or stay quiet again. She may get pushed down but the inspirational thing about it is she won't stay there, she get back up and not just be the same person she was but an even better person. She used her past and all the pain she's been through to and become the person she is today. In her poem she said the phrase "I will rise" ten times and even named the poem that, so that's a very important phrase and point that she's trying to get across to her audience. No matter what she goes through she will rise.

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Still I Rise is a beautiful poem about the unbroken, the strong, and the heart. Through this story, she preaches upon being attacked and being broken down only for her to fight back and say you can't touch me I'm untouchable and you can't bring me down. When she's being talked down she looks up at the face of hate and smiles knowing she's walking forward with love and grace walking forward with passion and confidence that no matter what anyone can do or anyone can say they can not bring you down. This poem is about never giving up and to walk away from what harms you and only let it fuel you for greatness, to keep making a difference and keep changing the world, and proving all those who said no wrong. This is her story, this is my story, and this could be your story too.

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Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I rise “ is about she became strong and happy again after what happened in her past. She’s asking questions(l 5-6) which kind of seems like she is making fun of the people who wanted to see her broken.
In the 6th part of the poem she repeats the sentence “you may” three times but then begins the next sentence with “but”. She wants to say that even tho she had a hard past, she became a strong and independent woman, who seems like she doesn’t really care about other people’s opinions anymore.
In line 12 she says “and still ill rise” what means that she will continue getting stronger.

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My partner, Garciela, and I talked about how Ms. Angelou wanted to tell everyone around her that she would not fall. She would not break from everyone's hate and anger. For evidence these lines from stanza 6, "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise." We also talked about how she felt proud of herself for not falling. That she wasn't allowing the hate and anger others had to get to her.

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The main reason for writing this poem was to emphasize. The poet was emphasizing civil rights activism this is shown in the poem because of her word choice. Her word choice in the 6th stanza show this greatly because activists did not care what most people thought about them. This is displayed with her word choice "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes" this is proof that she was dedicated to her involvement in the civil rights act. Another reason for her writing this poem was to show that no matter how bad her past was she wasn't going to let that stop her. This is shown in the poem because she didn't care of how they felt about her because it wasn't going to stop her.

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The meaning to me I believe is that through everything she's been through, from her past and then she still is strong and independent. She doesn't care what people say to her or how they act towards her, she will still be herself and stand up for herself. The parts of the poem that made me think this were that she continues to say, "I'll rise" or "I rise." Another reason is how she states what people have said to her or what people have done to her and she stands up for herself, such as she asks in stanza five, "Does my haughtiness offend you?" Another reason I believe this is because in stanza two she asks,"Does my sassiness upset you?" These are my reasons why I believe the meaning of this poem is that she is strong and independent even through all she's been through.

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My partner and I talked about how Maya Angelou used strong words to emphasize how she was not going to fail. In stanza 2 and 4 she asks these question like if she was making fun of them for wanting her to fail. Maya Angelou wanted to let them know no matter how bad they wanted her to fail she was still going to rise and succeed. Many times she uses the phrase "I rise" in the last 3 stanzas to let them know she will rise. In stanza 2 she says " Cause I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room" we believe that she wanted to sound powerful.

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What we talked about it was like Maya Angelou spoke her mind by using her strong words. Through her message i feel like shes just like "You can put me down but I will get back up." She's gonna do all she can by speaking her mind. Maya is a very strong person for all the trauma and stuff happening to her as a kid. Also when all the stuff that happened to her after that, her two uncles murdered the dude and mad her more scared. Maya was muted for 5 years. From when she was 7 all the way until she was 12. Growing up kids usually that age are very loud and outgoing.

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So I think the meaning of the poem (Still I Rise) is probably about not giving up. Like because in stanza 6 how she said, "You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise." So that saying to me that you can do what ever you want but i wont give up.

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The meaning behind the poem could show how strong of a woman Maya Angelou is. As stated in stanza two "You may trod me in the very dirt , But still like dust I will rise." , she could be talking about her rapist and how he treated her like nothing but that will not stop her from rising and becoming stronger . Another idea we got from the poem is she could be talking about the civil rights movement and how all they want is to be treated equally and not as nothing less . And that they will not stop till they are treated that way . This is shown on stanza six when she says "You may shoot me with your words , cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness , But still like air , I´ll rise.¨ Maya Angelou is saying that no matter how hard things get they will keep fighting .

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I think the meaning behind Maya Angelou's poem was about the civil activist movement. I think this because in her poem it states how people would call her names and look at her with hatefulness. In her poem stanza 6 it stated "You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with hatefulness, but still, i rise." The words I rise she repeated through her poem i think when she said those words i think they meant that no matter how bad things got she would push through the situation.