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Maya Angelou Caged Bird

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Most Americans believe that someone's freedom dictates their happiness; however, Maya Angelou, in “Caged Bird” suggests that someone's perspective is what really affects their attitude. The poem describes two birds, one boasts of a free bird who “leaps on the wind and floats downstream till the current ends” this bird has no worries except of the changing currents. When someone has no worries in their life they tend to overreact when something does not go their way. this shows that he has a slight negative outlook on life due to his very limited struggles. Later in the passage, Angelou describes a bird that is imprisoned yet “sings of things unknown but longed for still” and in vain for “sings of freedom. “ His perspective or his origins

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