Maya Angelou

Call Letters: Mrs. V. B.

Call Letters: Mrs. V. B. - meaning Summary

Defiant Embrace of Experience

The poem presents a bold, conversational speaker who eagerly accepts life’s opportunities—travel, love, living—while dismissing defeat. Each stanza answers a challenge with confident willingness, ending in a playful denial of failure: the speaker claims ignorance of the word itself. The tone mixes bravado and humor to assert resilience and self-determination, turning potential anxieties about risk into an attitude of spirited participation.

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Ships? Sure I'll sail them. Show me the boat, If it'll float, I'll sail it. Men? Yes I'll love them. If they've got the style, To make me smile, I'll love them. Life? ‘Course I'll live it. Let me have breath, Just to my death, And I'll live it. Failure? I'm not ashamed to tell it, I never learned to spell it. Not Failure.

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