Question

1.Explain the lines "When the first bird sings and the first bud opes. And the faint perfume from its chalice steals”​

Answer 1

Answer:

And it can't fly off to smell the beautiful perfume coming from an opening flower bud ("the first opes"). The speaker uses a metaphor here, when he says that the "faint perfume" of the flower "steals" (in this case, that basically means "creeps") from "its chalice." A chalice is a cup used for drinking wine.

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When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,1 And the faint perfume from its chalice2 steals— I know what the caged bird feels! When he fain3 would be on the bough4 a-swing; And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars And they pulse again with a keener sting— I know why he beats his wing!

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