How do we know which season the poet describes? A. The season is spring‚ seen in the springing grass‚ first bird‚ first bud. Note the simile here‚ which helps us picture the pastoral scene which the bird so desperately wishes to join. What figure of speech describes the flower? A. The poet refers to the fragrance of a flower as it opens. He uses a metaphor to compare the flower to a goblet. What type of figurative language is used here? A. The poet uses personification‚ “cruel bars‚” attributing
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Caged Bird Analysis We see couple of themes in this extract‚ the most important ones are the Racism and Maya’s insecurity‚ as we see it in this extract it is also comes throughout the book itself‚ it is the main themes the book is based on. The opening of the racism theme is on the line 13‚ Colored Methodist Episcopal Church‚ it represent that the society was strictly divided in racial groups and also shows that the religion is a quite an important factor in the live of our main character‚
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time period that she lived in. One of her most famous pieces is a memoir. Her poems are about women empowerment. Some of her other poems are about racial discrimination. Through her poetry she has inspired lots of people. Her memoir Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is about her childhood and teen years. There were many event in her memoir that shocked me. In it she talks about how was molested and raped by her mother’s boyfriend‚ and after he was beat to death she kept quiet for years. While
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The song that I chose is Caged Bird by Alicia Keys. Alicia Keys is singing about how she feels in reference to a caged bird. The purpose of this song is to express her feelings as a person who feels that they are caged with out a key. This song is a lyric poem because; it expresses an emotion and conveys an idea of how she feels inside. When you listen to this song it seems to put you in a sympathetic mood. I think that this song portrays Keys and her record label and how she feels towards her fans
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“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
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English 2 June‚ 2011 The Presence of Exemplar Male Figures as an Approach to the Representation of Marguerite Johnson’s Weakness in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings “My head was up and my eyes were open‚ but I didn’t see anything.” Using this line in the prologue of her autobiographical novel‚ Maya Angelou introduces the lack of power of the main character of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Marguerite Johnson. This phrase introduces to the reader a vulnerable girl who attempts to recite a poem in front of her Church in the Black section of the
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nice‚ intelligent‚ and elegant lady who shows a special interest on a young girl that had never been appreciated by anyone before. Marguerite is a young girl who feels lonely and sad; one example is where she states at the beginning “for nearly a year I sopped around the house‚ the store‚ the school‚ and the church like an old biscuit‚ dirty and inedible”. (Maya Angelou‚ pg. 390 of grassroots). Then she met Mrs. Flowers‚ the women that would change her life completely. Mrs. Flower’s personality and
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"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou‚ in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ tells her story of how and when she grew up. In Arkansas at the time of Maya Angelou’s childhood‚ many things were looked upon as bad or unfavored. Maya’s problem was that she was black and a woman. Her novel depicts her life in rural Stamps‚ Arkansas with her grandmother and in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ where her mother resided. At the age of three Maya and her four-year old brother‚ Bailey‚ were turned over
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one controls the other’s (or others’) words and actions. This sort of behavior lowers self-worth. This topic has such an undertone of confidence or lack of confidence that it seemed the only choice for me to write about to go along with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. When young and naïve‚ our self-esteem and self-worth can by affected by our physical appearance or intelligence‚ which is rather unfair. At the time period this book covers‚ the black population was made to think that they were literally
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The Caged bird in”The long Walk Home” In the poem “I know why the caged bird sings‚”by Maya Angelou‚ is about when she lived during the civil rights movement.She uses this poem as a metaphor to relate it to people who had less freedom at her time.Her poem talks about how African Americans had no freedom and couldn’t have that many opportunities as whites did.She refers the caged bird to to African Americans because the caged bird couldn’t fly around like a free bird.Such as how African Americans
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