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    A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning"
    A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning"
    A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning"
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    A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning"

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    A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535830119
    A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning"

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      A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of the Morning" - Gale

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      On the Pulse of Morning

      Maya Angelou

      1993

      Introduction

      Poet, playwright, composer, actress, singer, and human rights activist, Maya Angelou is heralded as a people’s poet, her work written in a common voice which is both accessible and emotionally charged. In 1993, when Bill Clinton decided to invite a poet to read at his first presidential inauguration ceremony—for the first time since Robert Frost stood on stage with John F. Kennedy in 1961—he chose fellow Arkansas native Angelou to write a poem celebrating the new beginning of his presidency. The panoramic piece that Angelou composed, On the Pulse of Morning, reached millions of television viewers. Its popularity proved so great that it was published as a cassette and chapbook in 1993. The work was distributed to schools, libraries, cultural centers, and book stores nationwide.

      Appropriate for what Clinton promised would be a new era in American history, On the Pulse of Morning is an optimistic piece that offers hope for the future by embracing positive aspects of the past. Angelou builds the poem on a simple foundation, A Rock, A River, A Tree, from which point she searches the distant past to provide answers for the present as well as advice for America’s future. Drawing different races, cultures, and religions together, the poem invites all of humankind to return to the foundations that made the country great, including basic values and an appreciation of nature. Angelou calls upon ancient voices in hopes that "Each new hour holds new chances / for a new

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