Analyzing Poetry: Girl on Fire & Phenomenal Woman - Embracing Power, Overcoming Mistakes, Schemes and Mind Maps of Poetry

Download Analyzing Poetry: Girl on Fire & Phenomenal Woman - Embracing Power, Overcoming Mistakes and more Schemes and Mind Maps Poetry in PDF only on Docsity! Poetry Analysis and comparison Theme-You are powerful and can rise above past mistakes to become what you want to be Girl on fire She's just a girl, and she's on fire
 She’s hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway
 She's living in a world, and it's on fire
Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away
 
Oh, she got both feet on the ground
And she's Metaphor-comparing the girl to fire. She is powerful and overwhelming Metaphor and simile- she is beautiful and will keep going no matter what Idiom-She is realistic She is a dreamer This stanza appears to be a paradox because she is both realistic and a dreamer. The truth is she can Be both and she’s not backing down. She will be who she wants to be, not what other people want her to be She's living in a world, and it's on fire
Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away
 
Oh, she got both feet on the ground
And she's burning it down
Oh, she got her head in the clouds
And she's not backing down Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
 I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
 But when I start to tell them,
 They think I'm telling lies.
 I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
 The span of my hips,
 The stride of my step,
 The curl of my lips.
 I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
 Phenomenal woman,
That's me. She is not a Conventional Beauty but her On the outside But how she carries herself and feels about herself makes her attractive She uses repetition of the words “phenomenal” and “woman” to stress her power I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
 Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
 I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
 And the flash of my teeth, 
The swing in my waist, 
And the joy in my feet.
 I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
 Phenomenal woman,
That's me. Metaphor- comparing the adoring men to a hive of honey bees. They swarm around her and are attracted to her Hyperbole-of men falling on their knees. Angelou uses this to illustrate the effect Her power has over others without trying. Fire is used as a symbol to show How much drive and power she has and that is what people are attracted to Comparison Theme-You are powerful and can rise above past mistakes to become who you want to be In the song, Girl on Fire, Keys also uses the metaphor of fire to demonstrate the power of burning the past to ashes and moving on. In the poem, Phenomenal Woman, Angelou essentially gives the same message and uses metaphor of people swarming around her like bees because of her potential and power In the song, Firework, Perry, uses metaphor by comparing the person to a firework meaning that he/she is not powerless but has the potential to be powerful