Still I Rise By Maya Angelou And Where Is The Love, By The...

Do you ever feel that you are out of place, like a standout in a busy crowd? This is how it feels to be discriminated against due to the colour of your skin. For more than 500 years, coloured people have faced the threat of intrusion and violence; they have been used, abused and discriminated against due to the colour of their skin, their religion or where they come from. In the 21st century racism is still roaming the airs and it is still a common threat; there are currently laws in place to reduce the violence that it brings but still we show ignorance. There have been many poems and songs created to portray this issue; these include ‘still I rise’ by the famous peace protestor Maya Angelou and ‘Where is the love’ by the world known band the Black Eyed Peas. Both of these pieces identify the pressing issues of racism and discrimination that face our society every single day. Still I Rise is a poem written by Maya Angelou. Through this poem, Angelou has used third person which allows the audience to relate to the social issue that she is introducing. Maya Angelou structured this poem in a certain way to be able to portray how much this issue meant to her emotionally and historically. The aim of this poem is to make audiences throughout the whole world aware of racism and discrimination. Maya wrote this piece to show that no matter how many times white people discriminate against blacks that they will always find the positives in everything while staying strong and