![]() ![]() ![]() I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Broadly speaking, the poem is an assertion of the dignity and resilience of marginalized people in the face of oppression. The refrain of I rise becomes even more prominent in the poem’s final stanza, which concludes with three iterations of the same phrase: I rise / I rise / I rise (lines 4143). A massive, powerful society.Ĭourage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. It heals the scars left by a larger society. ![]() The love of the family, the love of the person can heal. The author of 'Still I Rise' uses rhyme, repetition, and meter to create a rhythm that builds in order to convey the power of the speaker, control the pacing of the poem, and create a mood of. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you Why are you beset with gloom ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Does my sexiness upset you Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ![]()
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