The poem is asking for help from a higher power. To ask for this kind of help with confidence you as an individual must have had some kind of experience with the higher power. When an individual is in trouble the first thing people do is try to call someone they can truth. The narrator of this poem saw a need to call someone other than a friend, if you have one to call. Aside from this, the narrator was making sure he or she was not forgotten. The narrator of this poem is still waiting for help. (Line 30) of the poem stated “My beautiful Rose of Sharon.” What does that mean to the narrator? That mean my cry have been heard and that I am valued wherever I may be at the present time in …show more content…
She takes us to a place some people would not want to travel. (Opal Moore is a professor of English at University argues that the teaching of I Know why the Caged Bird sings is based upon a misunderstanding of purpose behind its discussion of “adult themes. (Caged Bird‘s critics imply an immorality in the work based on the book’s images. However, it is through Angelous’s vivid depictions of human spiritual triumph set against a backdroup of human weakness and falling that the autobiography speaks dramatically about moral choice. (Bloom, Harold. Bloom’s Note. A contemporary Literary Views Books Clelsea House Publishers, p g 58. a division of main Line Book Co. 1996 Print) Maya Angelus uses her incredible ability to create a sense of awareness that with time thing can