Question

First read the poem 'SYMPATHY' then answer this question.

What do 'old, old scars' indicate?

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Answer 1

Explanation:

speaker tells us that he knows why the caged bird "beats his wing" until they're bloodied against the bars of its cage.

This stanza focuses on the idea of physical pain. Not only is the bird wounded because it beats its wings against the cage, trying to get free, but every time it does so its old scars throb again with a new pain.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The reference to the "old, old scars" here suggests that this isn't the first time the little birdie is beating its wings against the bars. It really, really wants to leave that cage, so much so that it keeps hurting itself (eesh).

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