Maya Angelou: The Embodiment Of Poetry

Two years after she retired from writing in the year 2000, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire. For Pilcher, writing helped her escape from her daily life, and that it saved her marriage. Her breakthrough would not come until the late eighties, when she released “The Shell Seekers”, a novel that sold over five million copies around the world. It also stayed on New York Times bestseller lists for months, as did

Throughout her book, Nancy intrigues her audience by pouring pure emotion and truth into every word. She writes as if her sister is still living and vibrant as she once was. Nancy has never lost faith or given up when trials such as cancer consumes her. She chooses to rise up and to fight this battle to not only make everyone else proud but to fulfill the promise she once has

Though she is no longer alive, her life was not squandered and her publications live on for her; her legacy. She published her first novel, “Shadow Dance” in 1966. And only a year later, won a prestigious award for her second novel, “The Magical Toyshop.” She published works such as “The Infernal Desire Machines

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, also known as Rosa Louise McCauley, was born in 1913, on February, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Throughout Rosa Parks’ childhood, she had early learning with racial discrimination, as well as activism for racial equality. Her parents’ name was Sylvester and Rosa Edwards and her family lived on the Edward’s farm, where Rosa would live youth life. Rosa’s grandfather stood in the front yard of their house with his shotgun, when the Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street. Rosa Park’s mother taught her how to read at a young age.

I had to have a homemade desert on the table for my husband every night” (Brown 3). Such experiences reflected her poetry, significantly. Pastan uses many poetic devices, such as metaphors. Two of her poems, “Marks” and “Baseball” are similar in comparing two distinct things to life, but in different ways.

Meadowlark Lemon’s wife, Dr. Cynthia Lemon confirmed that he passed away at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was born in the area known as Jim Crow South and was raised by his aunt and uncle because his parents went their separate ways. He wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with his life until he was 11-years-old. At that time, he saw a newsreel featuring the Harlem Globetrotters. Meadowlark Lemon wrote in

She took his last name, and changed her first name to Harriet in honor of her mother. In 1849, she was scared that she and other slaves were going to be sold because her slave master was ill. Harriet Tubman planned to run away, and set out one night with the assistance from a white woman. She finally reached Pennsylvania where she found a job and saved money for herself. The following year she returned to Maryland to get her sister, and her sister’s children so they could experience freedom as well.

Emily, Charlotte, Elizabeth and Maria went off to school at the Clergy Daughters’ School when Emily was six. At the school, Elizabeth and Maria contracted tuberculosis so the sisters returned home. Elizabeth and Maria eventually succumbed to the disease and passed away in 1825. The remaining Brontë children never went back to school, but instead enjoyed creating fictional worlds and making up stories together. Charlotte and Anne Brontë would both go on to be respective authors of their own.

Maya Angelou was a strong African-American women who made an influential impact on the Civil Rights Movement, in bother her actions, and her literature. Her life experiences and courage helped others, and made her work influential. During Maya’s early life, she experienced many hardships that shaped her into the person many remember her as. Born on April 4, 1928, she only lived in St. Louis, MO for three years before her parents got divorced, and Maya, along with her mother and brother, moved in with her grandparents in Arkansas. At the age of eight, raped by her mother’s boyfriend, Maya learned the power that words possess.

Oprah Winfrey was born to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey on January 29, 1954. She was born in Kosciusko Mississippi. Shortly after she was born her parents got a divorce and Oprah was left to live with her maternal grandmother. At the age of 6, Oprah was sent to be with her mom and her two half brothers in the poor and dangerous neighborhood of Milwaukee. When she was 12, she was then sent to live with her father in Nashville Tennessee.

Not only was she an abolitionist, but a women’s rights activist. Being separated from her family starting at an early age, she moved around farm to farm until she resided on the property of John Dumont at West Park, New York. This would probably be the starting point of her legacy. It was there were she first learned english, and met her first love with a slave from a neighboring farm. However their love story did not end happily, as they were forbidden to marry.

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Wells was born a daughter to slaves in Mississippi. Six months after her birth their family was declared free through the Emancipation Proclamation. However they faced racial prejudices and discrimination. James Well, her father was a part of the Freedman’s Aid Society, which organized teachers from the North to teach in the schools in the South for African Americans free and their children. Along with starting up Shaw University, another school for freed blacks, this is where Wells received her early schooling but dropped out at the age of 16 when both of her parents and one of her siblings died due to yellow fever; this left Wells to take care of her other siblings.

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Lila Diane Sawyer was born on December 22, 1945, in Glasgow, Kentucky. Diane 's father was a Navy captain in World War II and later on became a respected republican politician. Diane always stayed active as a youth and because of that she was voted "most likely to succeed" by her classmates. When she was 16 years old, her older sister, Linda, became first runner-up in the 1962 Junior Miss Competition. Following in her sister 's footsteps the following year, Diane became the 1963 Miss Junior Miss of America.