“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou

1. The talker takes on the stance that she is fearless against common fears in life.2. She deals with her fears in an fanciful sort of way. She faces them with a magic charm that she keeps up her sleeve, not in a graphic way by marching up to them and facing them with courage, for example.3.The author denies that she actually has any fears. Magic, the way she deals with her fears, is not real therefore I believe she is in denial of her fears.4. I dont commemorate the author is afraid of what anything in the actual poem. I sound off that she has probably already faced and conquered these ill-tempered fears or been subjected to them at some point already in her life. This is why she does not fear them because they are not unknown.5. The author should not be afraid of these fears because they are mostly childhood fears.6. I have in mind she strongly refused to be afraid of them because they are childish fears.7. If the author was actually afraid of shadows, noises, ghosts, dogs, being alone, strangers, and boys, Id take it that she was very childish in her manners and had not been exposed to much in her life. While most children fear these things initially, they grow up and overcome those fears as they face life. I bring forward that if the writer were to be afraid of these, she may possibly be classified in a stereotyped manner of a young miss, but certainly not a woman, especially in the cardinal first century where woman suggest strength and power almost equal to that of man. However, girl still holds the stereotype of weaker, frailer, and in need of being protected (from things such as fears).8. I do not find it interesting at all that none of these things frighten the speaker. I think the speaker is trying to be convey strength, but it is such an immature strength, that it is a very weak argument.9. tally to the fifth stanza, the speaker seems to be saying that boys are nasty brutes who pick on the girls who appear to be extremely girly. The speake r probably fits in physically and stereotypically with the children, but mentally, emotionally, and intellectually she is older since she can come off herself from life. She is more artistic and free in that sense than her peers.10. Other indicators that the speaker is fearless is how she makes the ghosts go forth I go boo Make them shoo and her sense that anything is possible I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.11. Strangers in the dark frighten me slightly as do panthers, but only if they are loose12. I think, again, that the things that are mentioned are more childhood fears by both sexes. I think females have deeper fears than this and it is a maturity issue. I dont think this is a poem about being a strong woman. I think it is more a poem about being able to be oneself and not fearing what others think.