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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is named after her poem "Caged Bird," symbolizing the struggle and resilience of marginalized African Americans. The caged bird represents those...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I like the imagery that Angelou uses to describe the free bird and the caged bird.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The caged bird in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings symbolizes her own feelings of imprisonment and longing for freedom, paralleling the themes in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "Sympathy"...

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