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CHAPTER III THE RESEARCH FINDING
A. DATA DESCRIPTION
1. Preacher, Dont Send Me
The writer takes this poem from the book The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou published by Random House, Inc. New York: 1994. This poem
is divided into thirty two lines which are written in four stanzas. Angelou used figurative imagery, visual imagery and metaphor.
This poem told about the African American who asked to the preacher not to send him after his death to the same life, condition and same place Ghetto, the
African American was excluded and isolated in this ghetto area, they had to stay at this place voluntary or involuntary, they were treated badly by the whites,
segregation, discrimination, and inequality happened to them. Commonly, this poem described about the condition of African American in America that always
feel suffer, and jazz became description his paradise. The paradise was like the beautiful music, the music which always accompanied him.
Preacher in this poem assumed as the theologians who used the religion as their tool to create several conditions to support the discriminations.
In the last stanza the African American expressed his trauma from the discrimination that he faced from his child.
1. Preacher, Dont Send Me
Preacher dont send me 1
When I die To some big Ghetto
In the sky Where rats eat cats
5 Of the leopard type
And Sunday brunch Is grits and tripe
Ive known those rats
I `ve seen them kill 10
And the grits Ive had Would make a hill
Or may be a mountain, So what I need
From you on Sunday 15
Is different creed Preacher, please dont
Promise me Streets of gold
and milk for free 20
I stopped all milk At four years old
And once Im dead I wont need gold
I `d call a place
25 Pure paradise
Where families are loyal And stranger are nice
Where the music is jazz
And the season is fall 30
Promise me that Or nothing at all
2. Still I Rise
“ Still I Rise” taken from the book The Complete Collected Poems of
Maya Angelou published by Random House, Inc. New York: 1994. This poem is divided into eight stanzas and forty four lines. Angelou used figurative imagery,
visual imagery and metaphor. In this poem the African American expressed his deep pride in his race,
despite all the twisted lies scripted in history, he was as a black person will rise. He even thought that the black “haughtiness” offends the whites who want to see
the black race broken and weakened. “Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines diggin’ in my own
back yard.” he is honored by his history that is rooted in slavery, abuse, and pain. “Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise. Up from a past that’s rooted in shame I
rise.” The black race was as vast as an ocean vibrating with the richness of its heritage. It is rising above all the terror and fear that has haunted it. “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.”
In this poem, Angelou told about the African American struggle for equality, the African American in this poem resisted their fate, destiny and unfair
treatment toward them. At the nineteenth century the African American segregated in many forms. Such as through the history of America, the white
historians deliberately wrote the African American down in history for their
purposes to create them always inferior, the truth was twisted by their lies, they wrote the lies in their history.
2. Still I Rise
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