Using any of the two poems studied, explore how Angelou presents and comments on the problems faced by African-Americans in the past and in the 20th century. Which of the poems did you find most effective and why?

... Maya Angelou Poetry Using any of the two poems studied, explore how Angelou presents and comments on the problems faced by African-Americans in the past and in the 20th century. Which of the poems did you find most effective and why? Maya Angelou was born on the 4th of April 1928 in St Louis, Missouri. Her parents divorced and abandoned her when she was three years old. The African American Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928 in St Louis Missouri, in the American South. She took the name "Maya Angelou" when she became a cabaret artist in her late twenties. The first and most famous of her works wasn't published until she was over forty, in 1969. Her work tells the story of her life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings describes her early years until she was sixteen. Angelou's mother and father divorced when she was

want to read more? →