English Literature

     In the first paragraph of the poem, the feelings of a caged bird are being described. It is as if the caged bird feels the warmth of the sun and sees its brightness as it touches the slopes of the land. The bird even though caged can feel the soft breeze of the wind and can still imagine the wind as it stirs the grass on the land. The water in the river flows smoothly and the caged bird describes its shimmers with that of glasses. The bird continues on and illustrates how the singing of the first bird combines with the blooming of the flowers. As the flowers open their buds, the bird can smell their faint fragrance. Visualizing this picture really makes the caged bird sad, as what anyone would feel if they are imprisoned.

     People often think that when a caged bird sings, it is happy, when in fact it is singing a prayer coming from its sad heart that it can fly freely again in the open land. A caged bird often beats its wings, not to show us how good it can dance, not to clap because of our presence, but to show us how much he wanted to spread its wings outside of its cage. The caged birds will to be free is so strong that even though it hurts itself as it tries to flee, it still tries to fly away.

     Truly this poem portrays how sad a caged bird feels. How it misses the sun and the wind outside. As a reader, we sympathize with how the caged bird feels for the writer helped us see the misery the caged bird is going through.