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Bleeding Africa

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Africa Analaysis By Maya Angelo

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AFRICA

By  MAYA ANGELO
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If continents, countries, or planets could speak....

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what do you think they would say?

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Bleeding Africa

Can you hear her cry?
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Personification

Comparing Africa to A woman
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Angelo jumps right into visual imagery in her first stanza: "Mountains her breasts/Two Niles her tears ."(Angelo" 5-6)

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Here you can picture...

through symbolism, personification, symbolism
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A woman with breast, crying.

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Nile Rivers..

where the slavery trades took place
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THEY HAVE INTRUDED OUR LANDS...

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Killed our people...

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Africa HAS Fallen...

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Angelo opens with pleasant imagery: "Sugar cane sweet/desserts her hair/ golden her feet/". (Angelo 2-4)

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Angelo notifies who the poem is about:"black through the years"

("Angelo 8")
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"her history slain/now she is striding/although she had lain"

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A F R I C A

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Work Cited
Angelo, Maya "Africa." The Norton to Literature. Kelly J. Mays. 7th ed. New York : Norton & Company, 1957. 757 Print

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