Poem Analysis

Poem Analysis

Introduction

The poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings describes all throughout history the barriers that have been raised among races. Divisions and inequalities have subsisted among African Americans and whites since long ago. For more than one hundred years African Americans have resided in a world anywhere ongoing white preeminence and African American lowliness subsist. For more than one hundred years African Americans have unfairly abided many iniquities, arraying form slavery, discrimination, segregation, as well as racism. In history, ultimately the opportunities have subsisted for whites; African Americans have been oppressed, segregated, and held back.

Discussion

In Maya Angelou's poem, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, there is a clear parallel among the caged bird and the free bird, and the African American man or woman and the white man or woman as subsisted in today's world. While Angelou never mentions either race it is clear that she does so by the metaphors she uses to send the points she requires to get across to her audiences. Maya Angelou's words talk out to an overall African American audience. Her words are destined for this audience to narrate to, appreciate, and split the feelings of domination and segregation, and feelings of covetousness in the direction of the white race. Maya Angelou also describes to an audience of varied races.

Caged Bird is the poem concerning independence. The free bird symbolizes a individual from the white community, and the caged bird symbolizes a individual from the black community. There is the first stanza in which the free bird is described. Springs, floats, dares, claim are employed to classify the free bird, which demonstrates how courageous, powerful as well as self-important it is. The second stanza begins with a But, which right away wakes up unenthusiastic beliefs. The words employed to define the ...