The poem “Ballad of Birmingham ” is about the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama and the morning before one of four of the little girl’s death. Dudley Randall writes this poem to show us the innocence of the child and how 4 children died from the bombing that day, by the chaos of […]

Still I Rise The poem “Still I Rise” is about self-confidence and how even though Maya Angelou was broken and shattered every time she would rise. Angelou writes this poem to let us know that even though the world may be falling around you, you can still rise. In the poem, Angelou repeats these words […]