 Maya Angelou: Plans to write poem on Obama
Maya Angelou, the famous poet, has planned to write a poem about the newly elected 44th US President Barack Obama.
Details about Maya Angelou have been inferred from quite a number of sources. "I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet. " "I was somebody else's poet. "On Friday this eighty-year-old writer put forth tic comment from her residence in Winston-Salem, where she holds a professorship at Wake Forest University.
Maya Angelou has caught attention when she decided to support Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary. However with withdrawal of Clinton withdrew, she threw her support to Obama. She went to the extent of "thumping the drum" on his behalf and also introducing his wife, Michelle, at an event in Greensboro in the month of September.
The poet and author of such books as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" commented that she had a instinctive, physical reaction when Barack Obama was declared the winner on last Tuesday.
While briefing the reporters of a popular news agency of United States, Maya Angelou said, "First I laughed." "Before I could finish laughing, I wept. Then I shook. I mean, I trembled. You know, the old meaning of the word `thrill' has a physical aspect. It's like, `Brrrrr!' My body started shaking."
But the experience was also cerebral. Images of slavery and the civil rights movement and of her slain friend Martin Luther King Jr. raced through her mind, and in that moment, she realized that the United States was finally "growing up."
Se continued, "I thought of my people, African-Americans. I thought of white Americans. I thought of Asians and Spanish people. And I thought, `My God! What a country. What a country.' I believe that in the secret heart of every American there's a desire to live in a great country. And look at us now."
Angelou said Obama is "a clear and clean wind, a breeze. ... There is some poetry in him, yes."
Obama has not approached her about the inauguration, nor does she expect to be. She only has taken the decision of writing a poem about the election of the nation's true first black president in the forthcoming months. However she could not throw light on it in details. She only knows that, like this milestone, it will not come easy.
"I will approach it as the work it is," "Try to put all my energies and my talents and my prayers and hopes and all that, my nervousness — all of those things will go into it," added Maya Angelou. |
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