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Africa by maya angelou

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summary
After

we read and discuss among our group members on this poem, we can give a summary on the poem based on our understanding. Angelou manages to create an emotional space in which to experience the pride and suffering of widely dispersed and often very different groups of people. From the first stanza, Africa is portrayed as a complex and pretty

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Things

take a turn for the worse in Stanza 2. Africa is invaded by brigands that steal men and women. There's lots of killing. And some forced religious conversion. It's all pretty awful. Once we get around to lines 11 and 12, though, it's clear that intruders are on the horizon. Angelou's speaker isn't lulled into complacence by the arrival of these strangers, though. She's quick to point out the cold (even icicle-like) quality of their arrival. The "brigands" our speaker describes are probably

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THEME
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@Africa Theme of Transform

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Africa often seems to get the raw end of the deal. Droughts, violence, and poverty just seem to keep on hitting some of the poorest countries in the world and we haven't even begun to talk about the violence of the slave trade. When it comes to suffering, believe us, this poem knows what it's talking about.

@Africa Theme of Suffering@

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@Africa Theme of Patriotism@

There's an interesting sort of loyalty that gets developed in this poem. Angelou is trying to inspire the same sorts of dedication, affection, and respect that patriotic poets have dronedLet me count the ways." Here's the funny part, though: Africa's not a country. It's a continent one full of different peoples, cultures, and customs. So just what sort of patriotism is Angelou trying to inspire here? Well, read on in the "Quotes"

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After all, Africa is only mentioned about twice in every stanza. Oh, and it's the title. Africa seem so much like a person . and so little like a huge landmass in the Atlantic Ocean. As it turns out, Angelou is

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LITERARY DEVICES
@Repetition@
Lines 3, 4, 5, 6: The syntactic structure of these lines is repetitive, giving us the sense of an image that's gradually being built up over time. Lines 9, 10: The word "white" is repeated twice in two lines, setting it in stark contrast to

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@Anaphora@
Lines 1, 7, 17, 25: There's a fancy term for repetition within a poem: anaphora. In this case, some version of the line "Thus she has lain" occurs four (count 'em, four!) times within the 25-line poem. Lines 19, 20, 22: Repeating the first word in a line is

POSTER

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The poster is about the poem Africa written by Maya Angelou. The Natural Woman There was a woman exist at the front of the poster. With all of that intense natural imagery, Africa becomes not just a landscape but a voluptuous woman. Angelou reclaims all of the nineteenthcentury stereotypes about the dangerous desirability of black women, turning their

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2: Describing the woman as "sugarcane sweet" creates a potent image, one that also happens to reflect one of the natural resources of Africa. 3: Anthropomorphizing the desert into a woman's hair makes this image into a continuing picture of a single woman. 5 Once again,

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This poem seems to be spoken by a kind of omniscient, or all-knowing, being. After all, the poem starts off in the Land Without Time.

And our speaker seems as comfortable delving into the mysteries of Africa's ancient past as she does talking about the continent's current state of affairs.

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*Does this poem have a "happy" ending? What helps you come to your conclusion? *Do you think Angelou overlooks the problems of modern-day Africa? Why or why not? *What do you think causes Africa the most suffering in this poem? *What does this poem make you feel? Sympathy? Anger? Sorrow? Do your feelings change over the course of the