https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2020-08-28 14:53:40 UTC 2025-10-26 17:46:36 UTC hello@padlet.com jpickersgill2 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705124486 Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

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.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

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.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

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
I rise
I rise.]]> 2020-08-28 14:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705124486 jpickersgill2 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705124829 Why does she use "you" to address the reader?

Identify the repetition in the poem

Identify a simile in the second stanza

What imagery exists?

What is the impact on the reader of referencing the moon and the ides?

What is the effect of Maya asking a question at the start of the stanzas?

What is the impact of the "black ocean" line?


Why might she repeat "I rise" three times at the end of the poem?]]> 2020-08-28 14:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705124829 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705791267 Identify the repetition in the poem

Throughout the poem, I notice that Maya Angelou repeats the short phrase, "I rise". This shows that the poem she wrote demonstrates how people should not feel put down when others try to make them feel bad about themselves, and instead, they should rise above the people that put them down.]]> 2020-08-28 18:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705791267 jpickersgill2 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705865025 We noticed that...
This shows how ...]]> 2020-08-28 18:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705865025 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705872439 Brayan Zambrano, Erik Molina

Why does she use "you: to address the reader?

She uses "you" when she talks about being put down,"You may trod me in the very dirt". After everytime she talks about being put down, she says "Still I rise". This means that she can't be put down no matter what, she will rise. This shows that when she uses the word "you" she means that it doesn't matter who puts her down, she will always rise.]]> 2020-08-28 18:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705872439 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705874334

This poem conveys feelings of defiance, confidence, and pride in yourself. It is written to be empowering and to defy hate coming from racism and bigotry. The poem is  very structured, but still conveys feelings of raw emotion. There is frequent use of imagery to help create emotion in the reader. The poem's theme is to stand strong in who you are, and that is a theme that still rings true in these current times. I think this poem is important, especially now, with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the demands for racial and social justice in modern day society. ]]> 2020-08-28 18:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705874334 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705878120 When she said, "But still like dust I rise" we can imagine dust rising up and being taken away by the wind.]]> 2020-08-28 18:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705878120 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705883107 We noticed how she mentions that history has twisted lies.]]> 2020-08-28 18:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705883107 https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705892171 there were a lot of metaphors like shoot me with your words which represented others oppressing her. This means that she will represent her self strong woman and she will rise to overcome it.]]> 2020-08-28 18:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jpickersgill2/zjuvdpkt5az3vnah/wish/705892171