https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2016-11-28 14:06:56 UTC 2022-01-11 23:22:33 UTC hello@padlet.com fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140176609 Maya Angelou was separated from her parents at the age of 3. ]]> 2016-11-28 14:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140176609 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140179091 She became a single mother after recently graduating high school. ]]> 2016-11-28 14:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140179091 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140181011 In “The Lie,” for example, a woman protects herself from humiliation when her lover threatens to leave her by holding back her anger and pretending to be unmoved, even eager to see her man go:]]> 2016-11-28 14:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140181011 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140486817 More than half of the twenty-eight poems in Shaker concern the subject of love between woman and man, and of these, most deal with the pain, loss, and loneliness that typically characterize unrequited love.]]> 2016-11-29 13:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140486817 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140487203 In many of these poems, a woman awakens at sunrise, with or without her lover by her side, wondering how much longer their dying relationship will limp along before its failure will be openly acknowledged. Which relates to her own relationships.]]> 2016-11-29 13:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140487203 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140488169 Similarly, in the very brief poem “Prelude to a Parting, ” a woman lying in bed beside her lover senses the imminent end when he draws away from her touch. Yet neither will acknowledge "the tacit fact" or face the "awful fear of losing," knowing, as they do without speaking, that nothing will "cause / a fleeing love / to stay."]]> 2016-11-29 13:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140488169 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140490165 Her poems describe the loss of love.]]> 2016-11-29 13:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140490165 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140490473 A woman, "evicted from sleep's mute palace" and lying awake alone in bed, remembers the "perfect harmonies" and the "insistent / rhythm" of a lost love. ]]> 2016-11-29 13:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140490473 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140490933 "O Shaker, why don't you sing?" This mournful apostrophe to love serves as a refrain in an unsung song and, in its second utterance, brings the poem to a close unanswered.]]> 2016-11-29 13:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140490933 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140491197 The same determined voice comes through in a number of other poems that relate unabiding anguish over the oppression of the black race. ]]> 2016-11-29 13:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140491197 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140491688 “A Georgia Song,” for example, in its beautifully lyrical cadences, recalls the unforgotten memories of slavery, which linger like "odors of Southern cities" and the "great green / Smell of fresh sweat. / In Southern fields." ]]> 2016-11-29 14:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140491688 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140492459 Caged bird by Maya Angelou tells a story of a free bird and caged bird.]]> 2016-11-29 14:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140492459 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140493142 The free bird floats leisurely on "trade winds soft through the sighing trees" and even "dares to claim the sky." He feeds on "fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn" and soars to "name the sky his own."]]> 2016-11-29 14:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140493142 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140494140 the caged bird leads a life of confinement that sorely inhibits his need to fly and sing. ]]> 2016-11-29 14:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140494140 fucastle17 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140494956 In both of the pieces, a voice is being heard. A voice for hope and strength. ]]> 2016-11-29 14:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/140494956 https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/1987136108 a]]> 2022-01-11 23:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/fucastle17/g46r8ycy2nh/wish/1987136108