![]() ![]() In the first stanza, Angelou’s speaker bluntly tells her reader that other women wonder what she has that they are missing, even though she lacks the traits that society most often judges to be beautiful she intuits that the other women are jealous of her. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. She is happy with it and takes pride in the way her body radiates her inner beauty. In the last stanza, the speaker says that her head is unbowed as she accepts how she is. The themes of self-love and self-acceptance are there in this work. Rather her voice expresses her pride for being an attractive woman, not physically but mentally. She does not talk about her racial identity. Another important theme, identity, is explored from the perspective of gender. She celebrates not only her bodily beauty but also her inner glow. The line, “I’m a woman” propagates her self-confidence in being a woman. The main theme, womanhood, is celebrated throughout the poem.
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