What Is The Theme Of Division Convey In The Caged Bird

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Specifically it will discuss the themes of racism and segregation, and how these strong themes are woven throughout this moving autobiography. Maya Angelou recounts the story of her early life, including the racism and segregation she experiences throughout her formative years. With wit, sincerity, and remarkable talent, Angelou portrays racism as a product of ignorance and prejudice. However, she finds the strength to rise above this crippling condition.

Angelou was born in Missouri in 1928. She spent most of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, pre Civil Rights Movement with her grandmother and her older brother. Angelou is most known for writing the poem Caged Bird. In the first stanza about the caged bird, Angelou declares that the bird, “can seldom see through/ his bars of rage/ his wings are clipped and/ his feet are tied/ so he opens his throat to sing”(Caged Bird). Angelou uses the bird as a metaphor for oppressed African Americans during this time period; the bird is held back by a barrier, just like African Americans were held back by unjust laws, a corrupt legal system, and their white peers who saw them as inferior. Similar to the bird, Angelou felt held back by others, but she did not let the “bars of rage” hold her back from her potential so, like the bird, she “opened her throat to sing” and used her voice to protest for herself and those who could not advocate for themselves.

Both of these poems talks about selling and money and young men’s lives, but they are both unquestionably different.

Everybody in the town of Stamps always trembled with the anticipation. Today is the day that all the large classes from grammar school and high school were finally graduating. As the ceremony began the principal welcomed parents and friends. The principal talked about the “great leader” Booker T. Washington our great leader. Like a river diminishing to a stream and then to a trickle his voice became quiet.. He cleared his throat and said “ Our speaker tonight, who is also our friend, came from Texarkana to deliver the commencement address, but due to irregularity of the train schedule, he’s going to, as they say ‘speak and run’. He said that we understood and we wanted the man to know that we were most grateful for the time he was able to give

Both of these poems are written in free verse. Although these poems share the same conception and feeling, the tone is vastly different. These two paragraphs have a couple of similarities though. One of the similarities is that they both are talking about how people are free in America and you have to work to be a free man/woman.

The novel the Awakening by Kate Chopin is based on different kinds of “awakening” that are experienced by the main character of the book Edna Pontellier. Dependent on the title of the book it indicates, Edna’s transformation and growing consciousness. The caged birds and the sea mentioned in the text are symbolic. The caged birds symbolize Edna’s process of trying to gain knowledge of her own abilities, character and feelings. On the other hand the sea symbolizes Edna’s freedom and her final stage of (“awakening”) self-discovery.

Both have a regular structure and stanzas that consist of four lines each. The first poem is a very short and brief one that needs analyzing to obtain the main idea and contains many hidden messages. The second one is a long and detailed poem that does not need analyzing to get the main idea. Both poems could be divided into two parts based on meaning. The first part in the first poem (in the first five lines) describes the speaker’s state of mind while the second part (from the sixth line to the end) describes his liberation from that state of mind by killing himself. The first part in the second poem (the first three stanzas) describes the speaker’s eternal love to his sweetheart while the second part (the last stanza) describes his farewell to her and his promised return. The rhyme of the first poem is ABAB. For example, “I” in the first line rhymes with “high” in the third line, and “old” in the second line rhymes with “gold” in the fourth line. The second poem’s rhyme scheme is ABCB in the first two stanzas. For example, “rose” in the first line has no word that rhymes with it in the third line, while “June” in the second line rhymes with “tune” in the fourth line. In the last two stanzas; however, the rhyme scheme changes to ABAB. For example, “dear” in the ninth line rhymes with “dear” in the eleventh line, and “sun” in the tenth line rhymes with “run” in the twelfth

In the passages “Worlds reward’’ and “Caged bird’’,they both explain about animals wanting freedom.They both share similar themes.

This shows that everyone does not have the same rights and that some people are being treated unfairly. At the beginning of the second stanza the poet speaks about

These two poems are so alike and so different in many ways.I will show you some examples.In the abandon farm house and in nothing gold can stay they both have sadness,imagery,illiteration,change,and they are both have life in there pomes.That were some similaritys.Now however abandon farmhouse has things that nothing gold can stay does not.

Storytelling helps other people to emotionally connect themselves to the author so that they know they are not the only ones who are experiencing a painful or exciting experience, and are able to share the same emotions. It often helps other people to know what they should do in order to get over it when it comes to a painful experience. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings explores the life of Maya Angelou and the struggles she has been throughout her childhood to her adulthood. Richard Wagemese’s Indian Horse explores the life of Saul Indian Horse and the struggles he has been through after departing from his family. The power of storytelling can unfold questions which ask the audience of how and why are the events are unfold the

The poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou tells the story of two birds: one bird has the luxury of freedom and the second bird lives its life caged and maltreated by an unknown tyrant. Maya Angelou wrote this poem during the Civil Rights Era, the period when black activists in the 1950’s and 1960’s fought for desegregation of African Americans. This poem parallels the oppression that African Americans were fighting during this time period. In “Caged Bird”, Angelou builds a strong contrast that shows the historical context of discrimination and segregation through the use of mood, symbolism, and theme.

There are many common things between these two poems. Firstly both poems scenes are set in the

However, in the poem “Caged Bird” Maya Angelou characterizes the free and caged bird as, one bird symbolizing imprisonment and limitations while the other symbolizes freedom, which further develops the theme of inequality. The line “And dares to claim the sky” shows how unaware the free bird is and further develops the idea of its freedom. This piece of evidence shows how unaware the free bird is by exaggerating the extent of its freedom compared to the caged bird. In

Angelou’s poem “I Know Why the Cages Bird Sings” expresses the idea that freedom is a natural state and knowledge of this fact cannot be rid of by any amount of oppression, limitation or confinement from different opportunities. The poem contrasts a