Sympathy And I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

In the Poem, “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, he showed understanding to a bird in a cage. And I can be 99% sure he is not a bird and never was a physical bird. So what is the author suggesting? First I looked at who is really feeling and expressing this sympathy. I feel like the author is the one who is identifying with the caged bird, and he is the speaker., Next is observing the tone of the poem. The poem has a dark and sad tone to it using words like “blood is red on the cruel bars”, “pain still throb is old, old scars”,”wing is bruised”, “not a carol of joy or glee” (Dunbar)

The title of the poem, “Sympathy”, represents the feeling that the speaker has toward a bird enclosed in a cage. The speaker relates to the bird by repeating the words “I know” and following them with an action of the bird, revealing that he has also

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck portrays a story about human dignity. Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" displays a caged bird who deeply yearns for freedom. Both texts share a common theme: The feeling of being unloved is the most terrible hardship.

In “Sympathy,” the beginning line, “I know what the caged bird feels,” is connected to Dunbar’s perspective about his own tragic life. The metaphorical relationship between the captive bird and Dunbar is to show how Dunbar was tormented by racial discrimination. Additionally, the bird “beats his bars and would be free” with a bruised wing and a sore bosom. This applies to how the author challenged the ascendancy of prejudice for freedom. In “After Being Convicted..,” Anthony’s voiced opinion is comprised of technical language.

The structure of the poem is a great way to emphasize this metaphor. The poem wants people to know that there is always a reason to be hopeful. The deeper meaning of "Sympathy" is that everyone is being held back and want to be free, this is developed through the use of figurative language, structure and theme development. The whole poem is a metaphor where the birds are people and the cage is the object keeping them back.

Maya Angelou is a leader by example, she sets the standard by her actions and the stories she tells teaches the audience a lesson. Majority of her work is to inform us of the past and she wants us to learn from her experiences in life; she is a life teacher. The purpose of this poem was to inform us of the history of our country. The poem is titled “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” and her purpose of writing this is to teach the reader why the caged bird sings. Maya Angelou wants to put the reader in her shoes to get the ultimate experience of racial inequality but instead by taking the role of a caged bird or a free bird.

Similar to how the great painter Pablo Picasso paints a picture using colors on a canvas, an author paints an image in the reader 's mind through the style that they can write. The way an author chooses to write their novel can help the reader understand the author 's personality, beliefs, and general lifestyle. Every author who has ever written anything from a letter to a friend to a novel has their own personal writing style unique to their author that can be observed through their works. Maya Angelou 's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried are no exception to this rule, and each show the similarities and differences in the author 's personality.

In the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dunbar also explains how the slaves sang songs to relieve their pain and misery which was caused by slavery. Dunbar also went through something similar to what Douglass went through when he states, “I know what the caged bird feels.” It’s different when you have been through it yourself, and when you have just heard about it. Experience is the real deal, and once you have, you’re scarred for life as Dunbar states with the help of imagery, “I know why the caged bird beats his wing till its blood is red on the cruel bars.” The use of imagery in this quote helps the readers imagine what the poet is talking about. When you go through all that, all the misery and pain, you need a way to express your emotion and the things you have been through. That’s why the slaves sang their songs, “It’s not a carol of joy and glee, but a prayer that it sends from its heart’s deep core,” stated Dunbar in the poem. In the previous quote he uses invocation to call

“I Know Why The Caged Sings Bird ” by Maya Angelou & “Sympathy” by John Dunbar, are not only similar because one was based on the other but for many reasons. One of those reasons being meaning by this it is not only the repeated words but the words themselves that are used.The Caged bird symbolises ‘no escape’ or ‘no freedom’ so as it's continued in both passages they want to be freed.Flying and being in the air is symbolising ‘freedom’ because they finally can feel the air they can finally go and do as they please. From Maya Angelou's “his wings are clipped and his feet are tied” means he can not be freed he’s too damaged and detained.Which is another similarity to John Dunbar's when, “bird beats his wing,Till its blood is red on the cruel

“The free bird thinks of another breeze….a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams…” The two literary works “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” can be seen as mockingbirds that have flown over fields of prejudice and repeat what they have seen for all to hear. Jem Finch, a young boy and lawyer’s son from “To Kill a Mockingbird” clearly symbolizes a mockingbird because of his youth and innocence, and because of his innocence he cannot fully understand the racism in the story. Jem also has many similarities to the caged and free birds in “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, whether it be Jem’s

The poems that are similar are “Sympathy” and “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” because they are both talking about cage bird sings. I think sympathy inspired Maya Angelou's to write the poem because he and his parents were slaves. One of his poems is longer than the other poem. I think his poems are good to read they inspire you to read more. Maya Angelou is writing about him being in a cell and not having freedom. He is saying in his poem that he bleeds trying to get out of the cell he is locked up in. Some examples are that the two poems are talking about that the birds are singing. That the two bids in the poems are trying to get out of a cage. One of the poems is written from Maya Angelou and the other poem is written from John Dunbar.

‘’Sympathy” and “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings¨ they are similar because they are both about a bird that is free doing what it wants without having to be scared to fly. They also relate to each other because they are about a bird that is free and then later the bird gets caged and is not able to be free and fly and do whatever it wants. They also relate to each other because they are both about a bird that is struggling and wondering what he can do to get out of that cage. Another thing is that they are both about a bird that is a believer. By believer I mean that he knows that some day or later he will do something that will have set him free. So I am trying to say that no matter what happens or what he has to do in order to get out. He

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” depicts two birds which are used as metaphors to express the state in which the two classes of people live. In one description the poem describes the standard of living of a bird of privilege which alludes to the lives of whites. Then it describes caged birds whom of which are crying out for freedom, and are meant to represent African Americans during this time. It describes the feeling of being trapped and calling out for

The way sympathy inspired Maya Angelou’s is because maybe she had the same problems and she felt the same as a bird trapped against it’s freedom. And it they both say it in their poems and how they use different types of personification to show their same problems.

One important similarity between these two poems in terms of literary elements is the use of imagery. In the poem "All the Worlds a Stage", William Shakespeare uses many imagery throughout the poem to illustrate the idea that people change and progress through the time meaning that the life is a cycle or process. Shakespeare says," With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances."(Stanza 1, line 18). Basically, this imagery gives the reader a clear idea that throughout a lifetime people move forward. In the same way, the poem "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is full of imagery in almost every line. Maya Angelou says, “A free bird leaps on the back of