write the pair of rhyming word. from the poem Caged bird
Answers
Answer:
still- hill
sings- wings
say- day
Explanation:
ngelou, 2014
It’s hard to overestimate Maya Angelou’s achievements in literature and other spheres of public life, from her beginnings in St Louis, 1928 to her recent death in 2014. Her list of awards and accolades eclipses most other writers: she received over 50 honorary degrees, for a start, and in 2010, after a lifetime of acting, writing, directing, activism, teaching – even singing, dancing and composing – Angelou was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian honour) by President Obama. Seemingly quite slight next to her autobiographical writing and essays, this poem stands out: her poetry was more often appreciated for the light it shone on the lives of people in America from the time of slavery to the civil rights movement of the 1960s than for its artistic craft. You may agree with me though, when you read Caged Bird, that it does both:
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun’s rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown and longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing breeze
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.