“Woman Work” was written by the American poet Maya Angelou and first published in her 1978 collection And Still I Rise. The speaker, implied to be a Black woman, talks about all the "work" she has to do—everything from cooking, cleaning, and caring for children to picking cotton and...
In this poem, a girl writes a tribute to her mother who is her angel in disguise. My angel is a woman who walks upon the earth, she shows me my potential and all that I am worth. When I am sick she heals me and makes me feel all-better, and makes sure th
Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage, that began without harm, scatters ...
Ironically, however, the speaker compares her to a prehistoric fossil—perhaps suggesting how the woman feels about her own aging or implying that the beauty standards themselves are hopelessly old-fashioned. In the following section, the archetypal woman Rich calls "Corinna" (after a famous ...
One day I want to be the woman you are; I aspire to make you proud. You're my every breath and heartbeat; You are my soul. In my eyes you're perfect, I couldn't ask for anything more. I can always count on you, Even when I'm in the wrong. ...
The poem, at its core, focuses on the suppression of one's identity. The poet persona's identity as a black woman is central to the poem. Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear my head about this poem about why I can’t go out without changing my clothes my shoes my ...
The woman in “Mirror” is uncertain about her appearance and struggles to accept the reality that she is aging while the mother in “In the Park” struggles with her pitiful existence. The woman’s dialogue with an ex-love, for whom it was “too late to feign indifference”, is in gen...
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Aging Autoplay dry bones by drought salt and pepper black hair turn to white the smoothness of your skin has left you never to return again as you take a slower step you begin to feel just some pain thoughts last long sadness last longer thoughts last long thoughts about what was about...