Poems of Mayo AngelouMayo Angelou's poetry occupies a very special place in his development as a writer (Libra 1). As a child, Angelou experienced five years of complete silence after being raped at the age of seven by a man named Mr. Freeman. After telling her family members about her traumatic experience, her uncle literally kicked the man who raped her. Beings she spoke about her traumatic experience and the outcome of the man's death, she then imagined his voice had the potential to kill. Through her teacher, Bertha Flowers, at school, Angelou began writing poetry as a means of expressing the events of her life through her poetry. Poetry thus played an essential role in the recovery of his voice, which marked the success of the healing process (Report 1). Maya Angelou's poetry is linked to her life experiences as a child and an adult. Angelou began writing in her thirties. “The pattern that emerges from these events is that of a person's struggle to establish, as Dolly A. McPherson says of Angelou's autobiographies, 'an order out of chaos,' a struggle to connect one's experience personal to the general condition of African Americans, so that the chaotic life of the individual is ordered through the consciousness of being linked to the community experience (Libra 1). Angelou's poetry also bears witness to this struggle, which Pricilla Ramsey characterizes as the transformation of "the elements of a stupefying and personal, social, political and historical environment into a sensual and physical refuge" (Libra 1). Maya Angelou shares her reflections on life and death in his poem entitled “The Lesson”. In this poem, Angelou conveys the message that the more a person endures hardships, the more...... middle of paper...... comparing them to a pleasant feeling of sunshine to a miserable downpour of rain or otherwise when people say, "When it rains, it rains." Additionally, the repetition of the use of natural elements in her poem adds to this poem by letting readers know her and how she is connected to nature while also giving us a strong sense of the outdoors. She talks about “sun, rain, curved sky, mountains, oceans, lead and stone” in outdoor scenarios. They are very effective because among everything she can mention, she mentions the peaceful and most relaxing places like the ocean and the mountains, where people tend to dream and get away from reality a little. It evokes areas where one can get lost; giving us a glimpse into his consciousness. Mayo Angelo defines beauty in his poetry with a contract of dominant masculinity and femininity in his poem “Phenomenal Woman ».”