Still I Rise - poetry translation

Still I Rise
maya angelou
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Still I Rise
maya angelou

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•What do you already know about this poet?
•What do you already know about this poem?
•What is the literal and figurative meaning of the title?
What images and emotions are evoked by the words in the title?
•What can you predict about the poem based on the title and author?

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Slide 3 - Video

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Examples of figures of speech


- Metaphor: indirect comparison (not literally true)
- Simile: comparison ('like...')
- Hyperbole: exaggeration

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Still I Rise
Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014

You may write me down in history                   
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt     (vertrappen)
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
metaphor

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Does my sassiness upset you?      (gedurfdheid)
Why are you beset with gloom?  (in somberheid)
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Simile

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Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

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Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

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Does my haughtiness offend you?     (mijn trots)
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

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You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Hyperbole
Simile

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Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs
?

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Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide
.

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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear  
(verwonderlijk helder)     
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,                  (voorvaderen)
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

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Themes
- Resilience
- Strength
- Invincibility of spirit
- Freedom
- Hope

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Do you know a song or a poem that has the same theme?

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How do the poem and the song compare? How are the different?

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Choose your option
Option 1) Translate the poem into your language
Option
  1. Compare this poem to the poem/song you know about the same theme. Either prepare an oral poster presentation about it or write about it.

(
3 mins or more
)
Option 3) Write your own poem/song about this subject
(10 lines or more)

Option 4) Answer the reader questions and present your answers. Either prepare
an oral poster presentation about it or write about it. (
3 mins or more)

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Reader questions
  • What is unique or interesting about this poem?
  • Is symbolism or allegory used to enhance the poem? How so?
  • What are the themes of the poem?
  • What lines or examples illustrate the theme?
  • How does the author use figurative language (metaphor, simile, hyperbole, understatement) to enhance the meaning of the poem?
  • What is your favorite example of symbolism, figurative language and/or imagery, and why?
  • Does the author use rhyme or repetition? Be specific. What is the effect?
  • Were you able to appreciate or better understand a new idea or perspective from reading this poem? Why or why not?
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    Zelf vertalen

    - kies met je groepje om the beginnen een alinea uit

    - bepaal naar welke taal je wilt vertalen

    - vertaal samen je gekozen alinea

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    Vertaling van: Yolanda Adams - Still I rise


    Verpletterd, maar ik ben niet gebroken
    Gewond, maar de tijd zal helen
    Zwaar de last, het kruis dat ik draag
    Eenzaam de weg die ik betreed, en aandurf



     Boven al mijn problemen
    Boven alles dat mijn ogen zien
    Weet ik dat het mogelijk is voor God
    Om mij sterker te maken
    Om mij sterker te maken
    Toch stijg ik op

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    Trillend, maar hier sta ik
    Vermoeid, maar ik ga door
    Lang zijn de nachten, de tranen die ik huil
    Donker zijn de dagen, geen zon aan de lucht



    En toch sta ik op
    Om nooit op te geven
    Om nooit toe te geven
    Tegen alle gekte

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    En stijg ik op
    Hoog boven de wolken
    Al voel ik me somber
    Toch sta ik weer op

    Soms zit ik in moeilijkheden
    Maar ik wanhoop niet
    Worstelend, baan ik mijn weg er door heen
    Beproevingen komen om me sterk te maken
    Ik moet ze doorstaan, ik moet doorzetten

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    Toch stijg ik op
    Om nooit op te geven
    Om nooit toe te geven
    Aan alle eigenaardigheden

    Toch stijg ik op
    Hoog boven de wolken
    Wanneer ik me verdrietig voelen
    Stijg ik toch op

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    Boven al mijn problemen
    Boven alles dat mijn ogen zien
    Weet ik dat het mogelijk is voor God
    Om mij sterker te maken
    Om mij sterker te maken
    Toch stijg ik op

    Hoog boven de wolken

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