Cage bird essay

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Many people have always thought of slavery as people who are forced to work without pay, under threat of violence, and they’re unable to walk away. But that is not the only type of freedom you can refer to. Freedom also means been able to make your own decisions and your decisions being considered. In the cage bird poem it represents slavery by having the bird locked in in a cage and not letting him go. Even though the cage bird talks about freedom like he had already been free for at least once in his life, when he had never been.
The title “sympathy “explains the caged bird’s desire for freedom. According to the speakers, the cage bird feels constrained, oppressed, and imprisoned. The cage bird feels imprisoned because he does not get the opportunity to see more from what is in front of him and around him. In lines 10-11 it states that the bird has to stay in the cage when he would rather be perched on a swinging three branch.
The poet compares the cage bird’s song to a prayer, because the bird sings about the hope of things to come not necessarily of happiness. The bird knows that if at some point he gets the chance to be able to leave the cage, not everything is probably going to be as how he expected it to be, there might probably be some things he does not like but at least he would have his freedom to go anywhere he desires to be.
In the “caged bird” poem the poet states how she felt when she was a child and everything she had to live through her childhood even though though she wasn’t born during slavery she could comprehend how the caged bird felt.
The difference between the two poems is that “sympathy” talks about understanding the “caged birds” poem and how she related to it. While the “caged bird” uses a familiar, uncomplicated vocabulary throughout the poem. “Sympathy” does not use as much repetition; each stanza ends with a bird in some way.
Both poems have similarities, but are different in the way of expressing it and the techniques that are applied. The trapped bird represents African American men or women while the free bird represents a white man or women. This applies to the differences between the two poems.