1. What does each stanza talk about in Maya Angelou's poem, 'Touched by an Angel'?
The first stanza discusses how people are lonely and fearful before love comes into there life.
The second stanza conveys what love brings into our lives and the ups and downs included with it.
The third stanza demonstrates all the ways in which love changes us and sets us free.
2. What does the phrase, 'coiled in shells' mean?
It means that before love people are scared and hide in there shells like hermit crabs or turtles.
3.Why do you think Maya Angelo wrote this poem?
I think she wrote this poem because once in her life she was confused what love went and how it changed her and I think she wrote this poem to describe what love does to people so everyone else knows.
4. Give your own interpretation of this poem. Use complete sentences.
People are not naturally courages or brave and that we tend to live lonely lives with our selves.
Love opens our minds to friendship and our hearts to have compassion and feelings for other people.
Love melts away pain and bad memories because it allows you to share your emotions with another person.
Love shows us who we really are deep inside and lets us be free with our feelings and emotions.
Love is such a complicated thing to understand yet at the same time is one of the simplest things to show because its natural and is meant to be found in one's life.
The first stanza discusses how people are lonely and fearful before love comes into there life.
The second stanza conveys what love brings into our lives and the ups and downs included with it.
The third stanza demonstrates all the ways in which love changes us and sets us free.
2. What does the phrase, 'coiled in shells' mean?
It means that before love people are scared and hide in there shells like hermit crabs or turtles.
3.Why do you think Maya Angelo wrote this poem?
I think she wrote this poem because once in her life she was confused what love went and how it changed her and I think she wrote this poem to describe what love does to people so everyone else knows.
4. Give your own interpretation of this poem. Use complete sentences.
People are not naturally courages or brave and that we tend to live lonely lives with our selves.
Love opens our minds to friendship and our hearts to have compassion and feelings for other people.
Love melts away pain and bad memories because it allows you to share your emotions with another person.
Love shows us who we really are deep inside and lets us be free with our feelings and emotions.
Love is such a complicated thing to understand yet at the same time is one of the simplest things to show because its natural and is meant to be found in one's life.