Question

I know why the caged bird sings-
Who is referred to as a free bird in the poem? Why?

Answer 1

americans are referred as free birds bcoz they have all freedom to do all things.africans can't do their work with freedom

Answer 2

The caged bird cannot imagine, being able to ride "on the back of the wind" and having sufficient daring to "claim the sky" as his own. The free bird, we can assume, has never known what it is like to live in a cage; he has the confidence of one who has always been free, and thinks only of the beautiful world through which he can fly and the "fat worms" which await him. His world is markedly different to that of the bird who stands on "the grave of dreams," able only to long for the freedom this other bird has always enjoyed.

Given that the poem is a metaphorical representation of the African-American struggle, we can infer that the free bird represents white or otherwise privileged Americans