Consider how "Still I Rise" and "Warning" Explore Ideas of Freedom or the Lack of it.

"Still I Rise" is set during the apartheid, which was a period in history when the black people from America were segregated from the white people. This led to the lack of freedom, which is shown through the poem. "Warning" is about a young woman thinking about how her life will be in the future, and how she will have no freedom and follow the original stereotypes for old people. The title shows a great …

…being oppressed but is very strong willed and just rises above it. "Warning" is about a woman thinking of what she will be like when she is older and how she will conform to stereotypes. The two poems differ, in the fact that in "Still I Rise", the woman wants to break the stereotypes, and oppression. However, in "Warning" the woman would much rather conform to the stereotypes, even though she does not want to.