Homework Help: English

Posted by Gaveen on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:06am.

Can someone please tell me who she is refering to as "you" in this poem? Also, what the poem means, beyond the literal level. Thank you :)

Alone

Lying, thinking

Last night

How to find my soul a home

Where water is not thirsty

And bread loaf is not stone

I came up with one thing

And I don't believe I'm wrong

That nobody,

But nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires

With money they can't use

Their wives run round like banshees

Their children sing the blues

They've got expensive doctors

To cure their hearts of stone.

But nobody

No, nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely

I'll tell you what I know

Storm clouds are gathering

The wind is gonna blow

The race of man is suffering

And I can hear the moan,

'Cause nobody,

But nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

English - Writeacher, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:25am
"I" is obviously the poet, the speaker, the narrator, in a way.

"you" must then be the reader.
English - Writeacher, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:27am
You can read other readers' comments here:

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Maya_Angelou/17346

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