Building Humanity Values Through Maya Angelou's poems

Abstract

One of the areas of attitude established by Indonesia's kemenristekdikti is appreciating the diversity of cultures, views, religions, and beliefs of others and has a social sensitivity and concern for society and the environment. Poetry is one means of establishing attitudes according to the purpose because of its refined nature through language.  Seven of Maya Angelou's poems were selected based on humanity issues in her works especially on discrimination and racism. The analysis was done by semiotic theory and sociology of literature. The analysis of the poems is also related to the attitude competencies set by Kemenristekdikti. The results show that Maya Angelou poetry contains moral values that can build an equal value of human being and solidarity between people.