![]() The narrator here won’t give in to the weakness that the victims express in their soulful cries. The poet compares the fallen shoulders of the victim to teardrops. They want to see her walking with a bowed head and not be able to see them in their eyes. It is a universal reminder of American Slavery which reduced Black people to submission. The enemy wants to see her broken, the poet is questioning this. The poet will keep rising just like these certain facts which can never be stopped. Their presence creates tides on the earth which is more than certain. Moons and Suns are eternal facts of the universe that never change. There is a firmness in the poet’s conviction in her capacity to rise. ![]() ![]() In America, the businessmen of the Oil Industry are among the richest, and the pride of the speaker in the poem is not anyway lesser than that of them. In characteristic humour of Maya Angelou, it says that even in her impoverishment, she walks with all glory of self-pride. The poet is taunting them because of why her liveliness should turn them gloomy. It emphasizes the surprise in the hearts of oppressors who still see the boldness in their victims. The poet is firm in her courage that even if she is put down to the level of dirt, she will rise from it like dust rises. Oppressors try to change the facts of history with their bitter, twisted lies. The poem begins with a direct address to the ones who are trying to write her down in history. The poem ends in a sermon tone repeating ‘I rise” three times. The five quatrains in the poem rhyme in the scheme of ABCB while the other two quatrains’ scheme is ABCC. The first 7 stanzas are quatrains because they are made up of four lines each. The poem has 43 lines which are divided into 9 stanzas. The poem is a universal message about the resilience of the human spirit. In this poem, Maya Angelou expresses her extraordinary self-esteem and black pride which helps, all who are like her, rise above any kind of injustice and trials.
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