Question

1. How does the poem sympathy illustrate the life of African-Americans during apartheid?
2. Research a life or lives that you know and find out how you could relate to a caged bird?​

Answer 1

Answer: The poem Sympathy is written by the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem is about the racism. The theme of the poem is cruelty.

The poet himself was the victim of racism. Being the son of the slave, his talent was not developed much due to the Jim Crow Law.