what issue does the poetry of maya angelou discuss?
Discrimination and racism, and struggle
Poetry of Maya Angelou
 discrimination and racism, and struggle
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Poetry of Maya Angelou [SEP] General themes
Angelou explores many of the same themes throughout all her writings, in both her autobiographies and poetry. These themes include love, painful loss, music, discrimination and racism, and struggle. According to DeGout, Angelou's poetry cannot easily be placed in categories of themes or techniques. Angelou sometimes pairs poems together in her collections to strengthen her themes, something she does, for example, throughout her second volume" Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well" (1975). Many of her poems, especially those in "Oh Pray", contain universal identifications with ordinary objects. She uses familiar and feminine metaphors, many of the same themes also found in blues songs, and the dialect of African Americans to express universal themes applicable to all races.