Contemporary Announcement displays how Maya Angelou expresses her feelings about having enough money to pay rent. Maya writes about a lady trying to hold on to her rent money, so she gets dressed up because her landlord. In the poem it states, “ Take my heart cook a cow, put on your silver locket.” That really tells me that she was just trying to butter the landlord, so that she wouldn’t have to pay the rent.




On aging
When you see me sitting quietly,
Like a sack left on the shelf,
Don't think I need your chattering.
I'm listing to myself.
Hold! Stop! Don't pity me!
Hold! Stop your sympathy!
Understanding if you got it,
Otherwise I'll so without it!
When my bones are stiff and aching,
and my feet won't climb the stair,
I will only ask one favor:
Don't bring me no rocking chair.
When you see me walking, stumbling,
Don't study and get it wrong.
'Cause tired don't mean lazy
And every goodbye ain't gone.
I'm the same person I was back then,
A little less hair, a little less chin,
A lot less lungs and much less wind.
But ain't I lucky I can still breathe in.

In On Aging by Maya Angelou talks about the effects on aging with how her personality will never change. Maya expresses how she doesn't want anybody to cut her any slack or pity because she's getting older now.
"When my bones are stiff and aching
And my feet won't climb the stair,
I will only ask one favor:
Don't bring me no rocking chair."
Maya writes this in her poem because, she feels as though her figure may has but her personality hasn't.

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