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This 7 page paper discusses Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman” and argues that it represents the poet’s ability to use her life experiences as a celebration, rather than letting them overwhelm her with bitterness. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Introduction Maya Angelous life is a story of tragedy, struggle and eventual triumph. This paper discuses the way in which her poem "Phenomenal Women" may be seen as a reaction
against some of the incidents of her early life; that is, the paper argues that she has chosen to celebrate women rather than dwelling on the unpleasant incidents that many
women face in their lives. Discussion Maya Angelou was born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, and sent, along with her brother Bailey, to Stamps, Arkansas to live
with her grandmother when her parents divorced (Bloom). In Stamps, she "experienced the racial discrimination that was the legally enforced way of life in the American South," but she also
became deeply religious (Bloom). Then, on a visit to her mother in Chicago when she was seven, Angelou was raped by her mothers boyfriend (Bloom). She was "too ashamed" to
tell any adult about the attack, but she did confide in her brother, who apparently told someone else, because shortly after the rape Angelous uncle killed the rapist (Bloom).
Apparently this man had made advances before and Angelou had not rebuffed them, and thus felt that his death was her fault (Bloom). When she heard about the murder, she
"fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she and Bailey went to San Francisco to rejoin their mother; and it
was in San Francisco that she was "exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later political activism" (Bloom). She also became pregnant while still in high school and dropped
out to raise her son Guy, but she never gave up on her love of "music, dance, performance and poetry" (Bloom). Her adult life has been varied, ranging from political
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