Caged Bird , Week XI Assingment

Caged bird is a poem which talks about black people's suffering,opression,lack of freedom and resilience.The author writes this poem metaphorically contrasting 2 two birds, a caged and a free one.The caged bird symbolises black people who were opressed and dream of freedom while the free bird symbolises white people who had privileges and the last thing to do was thinking of freedom.The free bird enjoyes life with all its gifts.Its ironic how the free bird dreams of things which are pretty easy to be reached since he was free but as for the caged bird he was destined to suffer and had no choice but wailing.He can not fly away from his misery but at least he can open his beak to sing.This realates with black people's resilience about trying to fight racism and win independence.It is very sad how people discriminate their own kind by opressing others just of their innate natural features but at least these people learn to grow stronger and are such an inspiration.