“Men” by Maya Angelou
The poem “Men” is about Maya Angelou’s experience with men and the way she understands them. Men are the stronger sex and they can get what they want from women. Inexperienced, young, women fall prey to men who are the dominant gender. A life of a woman is not fair because she is deprived of making a choice in life and she can only decide to accept what men are offering or not. The poem “Men” deals with the desire the narrator feels towards men as she observes them through the window: “They knew I was there. / ...