Million Man March Poem - Maya Angelou
Aniqa Mazumder
ENG3U6-01
Language and Sound Devices
Imagery
Structuring Patterns
- Tone transitions structured with repeated verse
The night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark,
And the walls have been steep.
- Each repetition has a different connotation
- No set rhyming scheme, meter, or organization of stanzas
- Resembles a disorganized mass of a million people
Allusion
The Million Man March
- October 16, 1995 - National Mall in Washington D.C.
- Organized by the National African Leadership Summit
- Significant event in modern African-American civil rights
- Speech by Dr. Maya Angelou