Write the critical appreciation of the poem freedom to the slave
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In "Freedom to the Slave," Henry Derozio explores the feelings that a man experiences upon learning he is no longer enslaved, and then praises Freedom itself. The poet uses a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB, DEFE, continuing with the 2nd and 4th lines rhyming, but changing every four lines. The joyful sensations the speaker describes associate the man with the natural world, thus conveying that freedom is the natural state of humans. These “noblest feelings of the soul” include pride and exultation. Key aspects of the natural world are the “winds,” “wild birds,” and the “running stream” that “floods.” The spiritual aspect of freedom is conveyed through the “breath of heaven” (wind) that blows on this man. 73 Knowing that he is free, the man smiles, looks up to heaven and down toward the stream, and realizes his kinship with all the environment. This realization makes him cry out, “I’m free as they!”