An Analysis Of Maya Angelou's Poem Phenomenonal Woman

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Women are like birds. They are all a part of the same species but are all just as different. Like every bird, every woman has her own unique voice along with her own individual story to tell. From female writers like Maya Angelou to a just ordinary woman like me, the voices of all females have not been heard justly. The ongoing feminist movements, such as “TimesUp” and “#MeToo”, are not only a group of female activists but are a collaboration of voices with different experiences. With many voices together, women become strong enough to turn something negative into something positive. Looking into Angelou’s poem “Phenomenonal Woman,” females can understand her interpretations, experiences, and descriptions; resultantly, women are taught to be strong, unique, and be a victorious, “phenomenal woman” with a purpose.

Not only was she a writer, but she was also an actor and an activist for black civil rights movements. Angelou’s past helped shape her points of view of life by turning her negatives into her own possibilities for the future. However, due to her traumatic past, she learned to guard herself and develop a protective shell around her emotions and who she was as a person. Angelou exemplifies this in her poems and writings throughout her career.

She is proud of her hardships, and she looks at them not as stressors holding her down but as strengths cause she is a survivor. Throughout her writing, she exemplifies pride and hardships and what she has gone through by showing no concern for what anyone else’s opinions are. Due to her in-depth background as a black female woman she has used these struggles to write masterpieces, to verbally fight back as a feminist