Still I Rise” conveys the spectacular weight of the hardships that African Americans have had to overcome. Although the overall theme of the poem is one of determination to prevail, injustice is presented throughout to bring reality and a sense of history.
when using a semi colon you can only use it when both sentences on each side of the semi colon are independent. (meaning they can be there own COMPLETE sentences, they have to make sense!) hope this helped!
