The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... Through her cultural context, influence from other writers, writing style, and her theories about literature and writing, Angelou managed to write poems that inspired and still inspire people despite the critical reception towards her work....

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• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The vampire is used as a familiar metaphor to analogise the sucking of blood by a fictitious character to the draining of energy, personality and identity of women and in particular female poets by their critical husbands and a society constructed to 'let no light squeak through', continuing to metaphorically enslave women to the power of masculine subjugation. ... In this case, he uses familiar images to provide a significant analysis of Plath's tendency in conflation of her oppressive father and her later husband. ...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate