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Paul Laurence Dunbar Sympathy Figurative Language

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"It is not a carol of joy or glee / But a prayer that he send from his heart's deep core / But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings" (Dunbar 18-20). Those are some important lines from the Poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem is a metaphor that symbolizes people and how they are kept back. 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. The meaning is

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