Why Maya Angelous Poetry Is So Famous?
Maya Angelou’s poetry becomes famous because of her hardships of life. In her poetry it seems as if she is telling her story. Her story goes like this, Maya Angelou came into this world on 4th April 1928 when she was 3 years old her parents get separated and she along with her 4 years old brother was sent to live with their grandmother. After four years the children were returned back to their mother. Angelou at the age of eight admitted that her mother’s boyfriend had abused her and that person was killed by Angelou’s uncles. After this incident Angelou was in great shock and she started the poetry and started to believe in her words and thoughts. When she was staying in summers with her father in 1940, she was beaten by her father’s girlfriend and at last she ran away and stayed a month in the house of homeless children. After a month she contacted her mother and went back to San Francisco (to her mother). At the age of 16 she had a son named Guy Raphael Johnson, who also turned out
