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Detailed explanation-1: -Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. Georgia Douglas Johnson used imagery in this poem such as “While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bar”, “The heart of a woman falls back with the night” and “Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam.”

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the most important themes of The Heart of a Woman is motherhood, as Angelou continues to raise her son. The book ends with her son leaving for college and Angelou looking forward to newfound independence and freedom.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poets of the poems “Cat!”, “Silver” and “Your World” use sound devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration and rhyme to shape the imagery and create mood. The use of such language helps support and extend the meaning of each poem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson This poem describes the journey of a person recognizing their potential in the world, using a bird in flight as a metaphor to represent a person “flying” free from the limitations that would keep them from reaching their fullest potential.

Detailed explanation-5: -Metaphor: “As a lone bird, soft winging… In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.” At first the author references to the metaphor of a heart being a bird then shifts to the heart echoing calling home which suggests that the heart/bird left because of home.