{"id":219,"date":"2021-12-02T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2021-12-14T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T20:06:56","slug":"still-i-rise-maya-angelou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/digital-editions\/african-american-poetry-of-the-1900s\/still-i-rise-maya-angelou\/","title":{"rendered":"Still I Rise, Annotated Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still I Rise<\/strong>
\nBy Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

You may write me down in history
\nWith your bitter, twisted lies,
\nYou may trod<\/a> me in the very dirt
\nBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.<\/p>\n

Does my sassiness upset you?
\nWhy are you beset<\/a> with gloom?
\n\u2019Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
\nPumping in my living room.<\/p>\n

Just like moons and like suns,
\nWith the certainty of tides,
\nJust like hopes springing high,
\nStill I’ll rise.<\/p>\n

Did you want to see me broken?
\nBowed head and lowered eyes?
\nShoulders falling down like teardrops,
\nWeakened by my soulful cries?<\/p>\n

Does my haughtiness<\/a> offend you?
\nDon’t you take it awful hard
\n\u2019Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
\nDiggin\u2019 in my own backyard.<\/p>\n

You may shoot me with your words,
\nYou may cut me with your eyes,
\nYou may kill me with your hatefulness,
\nBut still, like air, I\u2019ll rise.<\/p>\n

Does my sexiness upset you?
\nDoes it come as a surprise
\nThat I dance like I’ve got diamonds
\nAt the meeting of my thighs?<\/p>\n

Out of the huts of history\u2019s shame
\nI rise
\nUp from a past that\u2019s rooted in pain
\nI rise
\nI’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
\nWelling<\/a> and swelling<\/a> I bear in the tide.<\/p>\n

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
\nI rise
\nInto a daybreak that\u2019s wondrously clear
\nI rise
\nBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
\nI am the dream and the hope of the slave.
\nI rise
\nI rise
\nI rise.<\/p>\n

Source: The Poetry Foundation <\/em> (2021)<\/p>\n

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To learn more about Maya Angelou, check out this Maya Angelou Biography.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Still I Rise By Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? \u2019Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living … Continue reading Still I Rise, Annotated Poem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4796,"featured_media":0,"parent":255,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalmethodsforthehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}