No Loser, No Weeper By Maya Angelou

Part I of Essay
In Maya Angelou's, "No loser, No Weeper," one of he r many poems, she describes the emotional state she endured growing up in the 1920's during the Depression, by using tone, diction, repetition, rhyme, and figurative language. Because of the suffering that she has endu ....

Part II of Essay
.... to lose something, whether is small like a watch or a toy. Moreover this poem is directed towards another female trying to steal her lover. Maya wants to make it clear to the woman not touch her Alover-boy." She explains her warning by stating that she hates to lose something Aeven a dime, I wish I was dead." We gather from that statement that losing something so small and worthless as a dime would make Maya wish she was dead is very serious and very threatening. This remark can be traced back to her background to when the trauma i ....