Similar to "Sympathy", "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" also speaks of hope for freedom. ... In Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings", oppression is most dominant in line 26, "But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.... For example, line 1, "I know what the caged bird feels.... In "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings," there is an examination between the caged bird and the free bird. ... Both poems are different because in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", the author speaks on the experiences of a caged bird and a free bird, while...

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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Caged Bird) is based on her life in the early ages. ... She cites the last line of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy", which is "I know why the caged bird sings," for the title of her first autobiography (Bloom 2). ... Myra McMurry states in Role-Playing as Art in Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" that: "Dunbar's caged bird sings from the frustration of imprisonment; its song is a prayer. Angelou's caged bird sings also from frustration, but in doing so, discovers that the song transforms the cage from a prison that denies selfhood to...

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Resilience is often displayed in the autobiography by Maya Angelou called, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This book revolves around the theme "although one may encounter many defeats in life, one must never be defeated" commented by Maya Angelou in the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... Maya realized this when she states, "How was I supposed to blame the innocent man whom I had lurked into making love to me?" ... In conclusion, Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a true example of resilience. ...

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I Know Why Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography of the life of Maya Angelou. ... Throughout I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, the author lives in several towns and cities, all of which effect her differently. ... I think that a book that is similar to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Farewell to Manzanar. ... I also think that I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is just more interesting. ... I would strongly recommend I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings over Farewell to Manzanar any day ...

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Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," has been deemed one of the most controversial, yet influential autobiographical novels of all time. Although somewhat unappreciated by the general public, this work is held to be a classic work of literature despite its taboo themes and figurative language for its time period. ... Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" has gained a tremendous amount of criticism for its disputable topics concerning Racism and prejudice, The American Dream, and its vulgar textual context. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a story of pride and pr...

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Her childhood experiences, which included rape at eight years old and a period of muteness, inspired her famous work, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", which was written in 1970. She is best known for her autobiographical books: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), The Heart of a Woman (1981), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award. In her massive volumes of poetry are A Brave and Startling Truth (1995), The Comple...

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Throughout her work, she transforms from the meek and insecure Marguerite Johnson in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, to the self-confident and intelligent Maya Angelou that is reflected in her book of poems, And Still I Rise. ... Maya's first autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, chronicles her tumultuous life from adolescence to the tender age of seventeen, by which time she is pregnant with her illegitimate son. ... McCurry says, "The almost novelistic clarity of Caged Bird results from the artistic tension between Angelou's recollected self and her authorial consciou...

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That's why Mrs. ... Hale, "Why, it looks as if she didn't know what she was about!" ... The bird cage seems to be a symbol of some sort of violence or anger because when the ladies found the cage in the cupboard the door had been ripped from the hinges (Glaspell 717). ... I know what happened to bird-like Mrs. ... Wright used to sing too but he killed that too. ...

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