Exploring Identity and Empowerment in Poetry: A Discussion of Parker, Whitman, and Angelou

Read the following poems:
Dorothy Parker, A Certain Lady
Walt Whitman, I Celebrate Myself
Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Discussion Questions:                Answer all questions;  
What can you infer about the identities of both the speaker and the person to whom the poem is addressed in Dorothy Parker’s A Certain Lady?
Discuss the notion of identity in Whitman’s I Celebrate Myself.
Discuss the power of Black women in Angelou’s Still I Rise.