The most common use of writing techniques in this poem are most likely similes. To be sharp, a simile is a lot like a simile. The difference between the two of them is that similes are saying that something is like something else. Whereas, metaphors are saying that something is something else, when in fact, they’re not. Similes are usually used to describe something. It is consistently used throughout the text in ways such as ‘Just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise’ and ‘Shoulders falling down like teardrops, weakened by my soulful cries?’.
There are many historical references in Still I Rise, such as, ‘the huts of history’s shame’. This is most likely referencing back to the huts that the natives of Africa lived in. These huts were usually made out of materials like mud, cow spillings, bricks and even grass. ‘I am the dream and the hope of the slave’ is referring to the heavy oppression of black people as slaves and how she has risen up from that title.
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