" – Maya Angelou. ... Such is this emotion a reader goes through from reading Alone by Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou is a prominent contemporary poet that was well-known for poems such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and On the Pulse of Morning. ... In fact, Maya Angelou knows first hand what it feels like to be alone in life, living between homes though out her adolescence and getting to where she is in life on her own. ... In the poem Alone by Maya Angelou, Angelou uses strong imagery, allusion, and repetition to generate feelings of sadness and grief in th...

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