This connects with the poem due to the poem being phrased as though it is in the perspective of an African american individual. This associates with the fact that this individual talks about the basis of what it feels like to be a African who gets discriminated in the way Atticus gets discriminated. The amount of determination seen through they eyes of the narrator in Still I Rise is quite evident when the Maya Angelou states “you/may/trod/me/in/the/dirt/but/still/like/dust/I/rise.” (Angelou 1,
This connects with the poem due to the poem being phrased as though it is in the perspective of an African american individual. This associates with the fact that this individual talks about the basis of what it feels like to be a African who gets discriminated in the way Atticus gets discriminated. The amount of determination seen through they eyes of the narrator in Still I Rise is quite evident when the Maya Angelou states “you/may/trod/me/in/the/dirt/but/still/like/dust/I/rise.” (Angelou 1,