help me with maya angelou's poem

[nicebird]

hi every body

could u please help me with poem "To Beat the Child was Bad Enough"

for maya

i cannot finde any thing on the net about the poem

text, analysis or summry

please help me

i have a research

thax i will be grateful

[nicebird]

4 ur info, one more thing

she is talking in poem about children abuse

when she is raped by her mother's boyfriend

[myrna22]

In her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou writes about being raped as a child and refusing to speak for many years. The links below are the text of the rape sceens in her book.

http://www.croftononline.com/bird/p3rape.jpg part 1 of rape scene
http://www.croftononline.com/bird/p3arape.jpg Part 2 of rape scene
http://www.croftononline.com/bird/p3rape.jpg part 3 of rape scene


The poem relates to that experience

[myrna22]

The Poem

A young body, light
As winter sunshine, a new
Seed's bursting promise,
Hung from a string of silence
Above its future.
[The chance of choice was never known.]
Hunger, new hands, strange voices,
Its cry came natural, tearing.

Water boiled in innocence, gaily
In a cheap pot.
The child exchanged its
Curiosity for terror. The skin
Withdrew, the flesh submitted.

Now, cries make shards
Of broken air, beyond an unremembered
Hunger and the peace of strange hands.

A young body floats.
Silently.1

[nicebird]

ohh thax sweety for ur replay
i appreciate that
the poem that u put "To Beat the Child was Bad Enough" ????
i cannot find any interpretation and analysis for
could u please help me by that

[nicebird]

In her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou writes about being raped as a child and refusing to speak for many years. The links below are the text of the rape sceens in her book.

http://www.croftononline.com/bird/p3rape.jpg part 1 of rape scene
http://www.croftononline.com/bird/p3arape.jpg Part 2 of rape scene
http://www.croftononline.com/bird/p3rape.jpg part 3 of rape scene


The poem relates to that experience

sure her novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, talks about her when she was young but her poem of the same name, i think talks about racism and slavery