Indledning
In this essay I will analyze the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. The poem is from the collection Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? which was published in 1983.
I will account for the structure of the poem, make three analytical sections where I follow the PQC model, compare “Caged Bird” to the poem “Strange Fruit” and end with a conclusion where I sum up what I have discovered throughout my analysis and discussion.
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Uddrag
In the first stanza you meet the free bird. The free bird has the opportunity to dream and has the surplus to enjoy the wonderful things in life.
As mentioned earlier, the free bird represents the white people. “A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends”. (Caged bird, stanza 1, line 1-4). Notice the words “free”.
The word represents the possibilities of white people, and the possibilities that Maya Angelou herself has not had in her life.
In the second stanza you meet the caged bird for the first time. After a few lines, it is already clear to feel the huge contrast between the two birds.
While the first stanza was used to describe the free bird, which had a lovely life, the second stanza is used for the exact opposite.
The caged bird lives a miserable life which is presented from the first line of the second stanza. “But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage” (Caged bird, stanza 2, line 1-4).
Notice the words “narrow cage”. The words represents the exact opposite of what we encountered in the first stanza, where we were greeted by words like "free", which is at least the opposite of "narrow cage".
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