In "Alone" by Maya Angelou, the poem personifies the feeling of loneliness, presenting it as a physical entity that walks with the speaker. This personification helps to convey the profound impact that loneliness can have on a person's life and mental state.
I would say that it's a lyric poem because it expresses her feeling of lonliness and how no one could surive with it. It's also a free-verse because it doesn't follor a specif fixed pattern. Some may say that it's a formal verse because it's a AB AB pattern but that's only on the 3rd stanza, in the middle. I would say that it would be inbetween a lyric poem for sure and a free verse poem. If you disagree, you should look up poem types and decide.
Maya Angelou used most of the figurative language I know of to write this poem. She used rhymes of a simple AB, AB pattern like when she said in the 3rd stanza with one of her end rhymes was: "With money they can't use" (and continued with) "Their children sing the blues" She also used personification when she said in the first stanza: "Where water is not thirsty" She wrote using repetition as well when she kept saying "alone" and "nobody" in her poem. Finally she used similes when she said "There are some millionaires" (next line) "With money they can't use" (next line) "Their wives run round like banshees" because here she was comparing wives of millionaires to banshees. And finally Maya used alliteration when she said "alone all alone." There is also some Biblical allusion in her statement where the water is not thirsty and the bread is not stone. Jesus to the women at the well says that he can give her water such that she will never thirst again, and in another section of the gospels, Jesus says that we should pray to receive the Holy Spirit, that God being our father gives good gifts. He goes on to say that what father when asked for bread gives his children a stone instead.
I think there is more meaning than just saying that a person can't live alone, I think she means that we as a people can't live without the other people of this world...I think she means that even if you have a great life with a great wife and a great family you still need to exist in the company of humanity. That is why I think she mentions that the human race is suffering and she hears it moaning from the pain of racism and separation due to other prejudice. No race or culture or religious organization can live in isolation from the rest of humanity.
The theme is that no one in the world can make it alone. Everybody needs a friend.
There are five poetic devices, otherwise known as literary devices, used in the poem Alone by Maya Angelou. They are alliteration, simile, imagery, assonance,and repetition.
it means that nobody can make out here alone no matter how successful they is.
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