Caged bird by maya angelou free#
The touching refrains enhance the optimistic attitude of the poet. The caged bird stands upon a grave which represents the death of dreams (for instance, of a better life, such as that enjoyed by the free bird). In the first stanza, Angelou describes a free bird leaping in the wind, floating.
You can read ‘Caged Bird’ here before proceeding to our analysis of Angelou’s poem below. She emphasizes the journey here instead of the destination. In famous and well-renowned author and activist Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her most famous book, strong instances of tone and mood are visible when Angelou discusses the topic. The poem uses the image of a caged bird to explore issues of confinement, oppression, and restriction. In Maya Angelou's poem, the hope of the caged bird to be free becomes synonymous with the inspiration to achieve freedom of the African American freedom fighters. Yet the voice, though not loud, does not lose all its strength and gradually more voices join the trembling voice to strengthen it. Really the glory of freedom is untasted to someone who is in bondage and it's also true that when one's limbs are shackled by SLAVERY the only way to express one's anguish, distress, or protest is to open one's mouth because silence does not defy one's significance then, but sometimes severe oppression makes the voice to tremble.
To me, a town girl of twenty-one years, this exquisitely organized influential poem sounds like a hymn capable to eradicate the fear of the mind.
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