![]() ![]() ![]() She shows her skill again in inspiring the readers with some simple and homely words bound by a perfect harmony. Maya’s parents divorce when she is only three years old and ship Maya and her older brother, Bailey, to live with their. The touching refrains enhance the optimistic attitude of the poet. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou describes her coming of age as a precocious but insecure Black girl in the American South during the 1930s and subsequently in California during the 1940s. She emphasizes the journey here instead of the destination. In Maya Angelou's poem, the hope of the caged bird to be free becomes synonymous with the inspiration to achieve freedom of the African American freedom fighters. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Yet the voice, though not loud, does not lose all its strength and gradually more voices join the trembling voice to strengthen it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, 1) Published April 21st 2009. Really the glory of freedom is untasted to someone who is in bondage and it's also true that when one's limbs are shackled by SLAVERY the only way to express one's anguish, distress, or protest is to open one's mouth because silence does not defy one's significance then, but sometimes severe oppression makes the voice to tremble. To me, a town girl of twenty-one years, this exquisitely organized influential poem sounds like a hymn capable to eradicate the fear of the mind. ![]()
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