Poetry PEA

4.     Poetry PEA'

·      Title of poem and author

·      Your summative PEA paragraph

Title of poem: “Still I rise”        Author: Maya Angelou 

First, she used this repetition because she makes readers keep reading her poem by repeating the phrase. And also, the line is repeated because the poem wants to emphasize that she will rise.

Second, by using the metaphor, she wants express that she was feeling free with using the ocean, because the ocean is so wide and she want to say that capable of overcoming the difficulties coming by using the ocean.

Finally, this simile is to create imagery for the reader and there is “still like dirt I rise” to say that she will rise above it all.

In conclusion, elements of poetry such as repetitions, metaphor and simile make this poem powerful.