Question

the poem caged bird revolves around the idea that songs have the power to set one free .discuss​

Answer 1

It is true the poem Caged Bird by Maya Angelou revolves around the idea that songs have the power to set one free. The caged bird in the poem is locked within the cage; its wings are clipped and feet are tied; it has no hope flying in the free sky; yet something keeps him alive. It is the hope of flying in the sky sometime in future. It often expresses this wish by singing. So, the bird’s song for freedom keeps its hope for freedom alive.  

Answer 2

Answer:

The Caged Birds

Explanation:

After the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angelou was inspired by a meeting with writer James Baldwin and cartoonist Jules Feiffer to write I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a way of dealing with the death of her friend and to draw attention to her own personal struggles with racism.

The main themes in “Caged Bird” are freedom and confinement, artistic expression as resistance, and civil rights. Freedom and confinement: As its title indicates, “Caged Bird” is concerned with both imprisonment and the innate urge for freedom.The poem describes the opposing experiences between two birds: one bird is able to live in nature as it pleases, while a different caged bird suffers in captivity. Due to its profound suffering, the caged bird sings, both to cope with its circumstances and to express its own longing for freedom.Although freedom, to the caged bird, is “fearful” because it is “unknown”, he still sings “a fearful trill” because he still longs for freedom. Here, the speaker reveals that his cry for freedom is “heard on the distant hill”. The last line states, “For the caged bird sings of freedom”.