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I think the meaning behind Maya Angelous poem is that no matter how many bad things you go through or how many times people try to break you down you should never allow it. In the second section," Does my sassiness upset you?", I feel like is the best explanation as to how she never lets anybody bring her down. It just shows that she is proud of who she is and she doesn't care about what anybody has to say.

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In this poem I was really drawn towards the 4th stanza, in this stanza she says "Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes?" I see this as people hatting on me or looking down on my dreams in life. telling me I wont be anything or go anywhere.

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I believe the meaning is, no matter what you say or do I will not let you step on me. Because of how much she repeats I will rise. Kind of like the saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will not hurt me. She has to much hope to let those things bother her.

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I believe that no matter what was happening in her life she did not ever let anyone bring her down. Maya always stayed positive even when going through tough times which makes her such a strong person. In the sixth stanza she states, " 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 is my favorite stanza because this really shows how strong and positive she is no matter what. Maya is not going to let other people hurt her feelings and bring her down. I think Maya wrote this to show all of the tough situations she has been through and inspire others to not even bother what others think and keep going and live your life.

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I think that no matter what happend she was always positive and didn't let others bring her down such as the haters or nay-sayers. In the fourth stanza she talks about people wanting to see her broken which directs the attention to the "haters".

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In this poem Maya Angelou is talking about how much confidence she has, and her ability to persevere and stay strong. In the 5th stanza Angelou says, "Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard". Angelou also says that people can try to put her down but she will not let their words affect her. She says this specifically in the 6th stanza. "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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I believe that Maya Angelou is writing about how she has seen and been though some tough situations and that she has overcome all of it. Most people would assume that she wouldn't be this happy but she is proving to the world that she can do all things. She talks about how she is living the dream that her ancestors had envisioned in the last stanza of her poem. "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise, Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear, I rise, Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise"

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I believe that like whatever she goes through she can always make it out OK so theirs no need for her to worry or care. When she had stated Nd i quote " You may shoot me with you word, You may cut me with your eyes'. She means that you can say or look at her how ever you want but in the end it doesn't bring her down.

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My partner and I think the the meaning behind this poem is being proud of who she is. Maya Angelou explains though people or things might bring her down she is not afraid to be who she is. I have a personal connection to her poem because i am very proud of who i am as well,no matter what. At the end of her poem in the last stanza she make a connection with herself explaining that even with her past she is strong and will leave it behind.I think during this time she was at the beginning of the activists movement when she wrote this because a lot of what she wrote related to how nothing could shake or break her which is why we think its a poem about pride.

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I think that she learned that no matter what she goes through, she will always overcome anything that life throws at her. "You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I rise." She is saying here that no matter what you say about her or put her through, you can't break her and she will always come back up from it. Nothing will stop her from reaching the person she is meant to become. It reminds me of the song "Rise Up" by Andra Day. The song says that they will rise unafraid, and rise up a thousand times, even after everything they were put through. I believe that the song has a similar meaning

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I think that it is about that how even with all she had to face and everything she still faces will not hold her down. She references many things that she is fine with since she will over come it, Like "You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies." This quote alone is very telling when it comes to what this poem is talking about. It shows her determination to keep moving on no matter what and how others thoughts on her will not affect her.

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I think that she is trying to send a message to us to never let things bring us down. She talks about how people wanted to see her fail. She shows how strong she was. She tells us how she had nights full of terror and she was still able to get back up. I can tell she has been through a lot. She is trying to show us that u can overcome some crazy obstacles in life

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I feel like she was trying to tell everyone that was cruel to her that no matter what anyone said she would push forward and get back up. In the 8th stanza I thought it was cool how she talked about even the things that were in the past and history that were bad wouldn't get her down and she would rise from that to. I also related to the fact that she always rises even when people look down on her and I always try to do the same thing.

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The poem talks about how nothing gets her down and will stay positive. For example in stanza 2 Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

she talks about how she doesn't care about what you think of her, that she will always be positive. This poem relates to me because my father also lived in really bad conditions as a kid and decided to rise above them. whats most interesting is that I don't really relate to this poem but other people who I know would really resonate with this poem.

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I think the meaning behind Maya Angelou's poem is that since she has been scared by something that was traumatic to her. I also believe that even though her and her mother probably weren't that close. With her uncles they still looked out for her and did what they had to do. What i like about her poem is they way she uses so many similes and compares herself to many things by following she "still will rise" as in stanza 1&2 "’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room." Although she felt guilty she was finding a way to have her voice and get back in the means of her life and taking it back how the man basically stole it from her.

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The way I think I related to what Maya Angelou said is that when people put her down she rises from it and makes something out of herself and becomes stronger. So in a way I do the same thing and i just let people say what they had to say ignore it and just became better and did better for myself.