During, the book of Maya Angelou's poems I noticed a lot of powerful expressions and rhythm,
some of these things we looked at class, for example her similies were really powerful, a poem in
paticular caught my eye called "Passing Time". It talked about how we as people spend the rest of
our lives and how we rarely notice some natural environmental beauties because were to distracted
with other things. Ms. Angelou has some magnificent poems abot human life , relationships and other
social topics.
The book kind of reminds me of "Bronx Masquerade", even thought this book dosen't really have s
storyline, the poems tell a story and if you are real careful on how read you night ubderstand it. In the
Bronx Masquerade, by: Nikki Grimes, a bunch of teenagers write poems to help them overcome bad
situations happening in their neighborhood. Ms. Angelou writes about numerous topics that have to
do with different related social awareness issues. In 2009, Ms. Angelou wrote a poem about Michael
Jackson. The poem was titled " We had him", the poem was read at his funeral by Queen Latifah.
The poems that she has written has given people inspiration and hope. I'm staring to write my own
poetry and looking off her style of writng and examining the type of language and rhythmn she uses.
I think that her poems would be a great mentor text for me when the time comes when we have to
write our own sonets in class. Ms. Angelou had pretty impressive poems ,but her best poem is said to
be "On the pulse of morning", which she read at he inaugaration for Bill Clinton. Since it is Black
History month I chosr to write my reader's response on Ms. Maya Angelou and her magnificent
poems.
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