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This essay will compare and contrast 'life doesn't frighten' me by Maya Angelou and 'still I rise' by Maya Angelo the theme of fear and pride will be explored in this essay. The theme of fear and pride is discussed in this essay because in one of the poems she is scared of little things that scare and they is nothing to be scared of like the dark, but in the other poem pride is the theme because she is proud of her color. One of the main similarities between the texts is that the poems both use repetition. This is displayed in 'Life Doesn't Frighten Me' because she says "Not at all, not at all, life doesn't frighten me at all" The quotation proves that this is like a chant. She is reassuring herself that she is not scared however, the repetition ironically emphasizes that she is actually scared. Similarly...

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