The "Caged Bird" is a poetry which talks about black people or slaves during the 18th century and who were so badly treated by society, mostly by the white ones. They weren't allowed almost to do anything, but just being ruled by others. In this poetry, the "bird", who is the symbol of freedom, represents two kinds of people, the white one and the black one or the slaves. The free bird represents the white people and the caged bird represents the slaves. At that time white people were free to do whatever they wanted to, and on the other hand the slaves who were "caged" in the sense of not doing whatever they wanted, they weren't allowed to express feelings, opinions, to dress like the white people and a lot of other things which stopped them to live their life from feeling free and as they wanted. And so, this is the reason why at this poetry are used two big important and so different themes, which are the freedom and the slavery, but which both of these two themes make also a contrast between each other, to present and show the way of life the slaves were living so different from that of the white ones.
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