In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are. Welcome to Under the Cover of Night with Javen and Lauren. Today we're going to be comparing a poem to our book. And that poem is Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Cause I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room? Just like moons and like suns, with a certainty of tides. Just like hopes springing high, still I rise. Did you want to see me broken, bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard, because I laugh like I've got gold mines digging in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise. Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide. Welling and swelling, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise. so we analyze this poem and we feel like Maya Angelou she was trying to she was trying to show that women overcome all the factors that society pit against them and they still rise above them all because society is hard on women especially today with social media There's a lot of expectations that women have to live up to, and sometimes that's hard, especially like, you have to be mentally strong to be able to overcome everything that society tells you you have to be So I think this was Maya Angelou expressing her feelings towards that Yeah especially with like lines like does my sassiness upset you Did you want to see me broken Does my haughtiness offend you? Like stuff like that. Like things that like are common in women, she thinks that people would find them offensive because people are upset when yeah because you're something that they don't expect you to be they don't want you to be so and society puts all these rules on women yeah and it's kind of like oh does this offend you that I do this this way and not the way you want me to be or not the way you I'm supposed to be or something like that there's a women are supposed to form into whatever mold society puts them in so i think that this is a good example for our book because our entire book is about feminism and finding who you truly are and rising against what you think may get you in trouble or what people don't want you to do, you do it anyways. That's kind of a theme in our book. So to connect it to our book, we were talking about it and some of the lines at the end, it's saying, leaving behind nights of terror and fear, bringing the gifts that my ancestor gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave well obviously our book's about world war ii so we directly related it to the holocaust the holocaust and jewish people and jewish religion and because obviously they were slaves and they were weaving behind knights of terror and Just open the freaking door. Open the door. Open the door. What's you? Oh, I know. Yeah you yeah get out of here Yeah tear paper towels and stuff Yeah literally the whole time I reading the book You could have just tore it off How clean it looks Whoa it looks so clean Great great Our podcast is messed up. I'm just kidding. Why don't you- Leave. Whatever. Are we still recording? Yeah. We're going to have to trim it. Okay. Okay. As I was saying, leaving behind nights of terror and fear. I mean, what was that one? what was that uh when they when they got pushed into those cattle cars no uh the night of broken glass the night of uh you know when we taught got taught that in american history or world history yeah but i don't remember exactly basically that was like the night of terror and fear because they all they came and pushed them out of their homes and like stole all their stuff oh yeah and shot them and put them in cattle cars and yeah you know what I'm talking about that's why I was thinking of that's why I was thinking of Jewish people because the night of terror and fear yeah that makes sense and also we can relate it to this because it says um bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I am the dream and the hope of the slave I rise so the way I took that was they're talking about the gift that their ancestors gave are the Jewish religion and the fact that they overcame this great awful event in history that almost killed them all out it still prevails to this day there are still Jewish people today so that's them rising so that's how I took it yeah I can see that and that's like the last lines of the poem too which I think make it really even more because like that's the end yeah it's wrapping it up it's wrapping up the whole book which it is about it is about women but it can also be about it just reminds me of this too yeah it can definitely reminds me of everything history shame because germans shamed them killed them millions of them yeah you may shoot me with your words you may cut me with your eyes you may kill me with your hatefulness but still like you're all right yeah that's so like they were literally shot yeah killed burned everything and everybody who wasn't jewish there was propaganda released by the nazis that said that you should judge them because they are devil spawn or whatever they said i guess any not it doesn have to be straight jewish people not straight but like um people that were different yeah because they also executed like gays and yeah gays blacks yeah anyone anyone who was not in their in their frame the arian race yeah yeah so so i think it can relate in the way that it was intended to it can relate to our book because of the themes in our book several ways yeah and then also directly by you know jewish people overcoming what horrific events happened at the holocaust so i think it was a really good fit yeah this i think it was a good job lauren thanks yeah so i think we'll wrap it up by reading it one more time and just letting those words sit with you okay still i rise by maya angelou you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies you may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Cause I walk like I got oil wells pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken, bowed head and lowered eyes, shoulders falling down like teardrops, weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard, cause I laugh like I got gold mines digging in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs. Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise. Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise. I'm a black ocean, weeping and wide, welling and swelling, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise.
