![]() ![]() She does this to remind the reader of what the caged bird has gone through, and so that that idea sticks in the readers mind and therefore helps to eliminate this form of imprisonment, which is slavery, racism from the world. In addition to that line, the poet repeats the second stanza at the end of the poem. This shows that even though the bird knows that he might be inside that dreadful cage for the rest of his life, he still hopes for freedom, he still desires this abstract right in everyone which he has never met. Meanwhile, the caged bird still has his wings clipped and his feet tied, and yet, he opens his throat to sing.Another way in which the poet shows the lack of freedom of the caged bird, is by repeating a certain line, or even a stanza throughout the poem, so he opens his throat to sing. The free bird now looks for fat worms and does not dare to claim the sky he has now named it his own, showing again the ungratefulness of that bird. The poet has gradually made the free bird accomplish more, while the caged bird is still in the same position as before. Also to emphasize the difference between what the free bird can achieve and what the caged bird can, which is to sing his heart out in hope of a better future. She does this to emphasize the only mechanism which the bird can use to express himself, as he cannot roam the sky as a free bird or cannot claim the sky his own. The poet uses a technique in which every even line rhymes with each other, except for the last one.įearful trill longed for stilldistant hillsings of freedom.This is more noticeable or shocking in the stanzas about the caged bird. This can only lead to the bird being consumed by its own anger. This metaphor, meaning that the bird is so angry, so full of rage that he cannot act properly he is confined within his own cage created by rage. This bird has had his wing clipped and his feet tied, and is so full of anger that he can seldom see through/his bars of rage. On the other hand, the second stanza describes the feelings of another bird, another soul an imprisoned soul, a caged bird. This is saying that even though that bird has the privilege of enjoying freedom, he still has the courage to claim more for himself. However she ends the stanza with and dares to claim the sky. She uses words like floats downstream, orange suns rays… to emphasize the free life of that bird. In the first stanza the poet describes what freedom must like, even though she had never experienced it. ![]() This contrast creates a sense of melancholy and sadness through out the poem, which the poet uses to portray her desires and other purposes. ![]() The poem is structured by six stanzas, each one talking about the life of the free bird, or of the caged bird. One symbolizing freedom, someone who has got it all but still wants more and another one representing imprisonment, the desire of something unknown. This emotion filled poem compares and contrasts the life of two birds. Caged Bird analysisIn the poem Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, we can see that the themes are the lack of freedom, but also the hope for it. ![]()
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