![]() ![]() ![]() This effect is again created in stanzas 4 and 5, they have slightly longer lines but both are 4 lines each. This represents how the writer may be trying to evenly contrast between the two birds. S1 and 6 – “trill,still, hill” The rhyming in these stanzas create a rhythm, a beat for the poem, and the rhythm gives a more ominous air to the stanza.S5 –“shadow shouts on a nightmare scream”.Sibilance : S1- “ leaps, floats,dips,dares”, these are all words describing the free bird and these words are all verbs of free actions.The words that are used alternate between very harsh, strong words such as “stalks “ and “fearful trill” when in a stanza concerning the Caged bird, to more flowing words such as “floats” and “sighing trees” when concerned with the Free bird.This had the effect of raising their spirits and maintaining unity, producing a sense of hope. Importantly, African-American slaves often used to sing while working. This could be compared to Slavery in the USA, the caged bird being a slave, and the free bird a white man.His song is so loud that it is ‘heard on a distant hill’, perhaps forcing the free bird to take notice. The poem is ultimately positive, because although the caged bird has no freedom, his hope cannot be dimmed by his ‘bars of rage’ and ‘clipped wings’.This is the irony of the poem, and makes it relevant to everyday life. Physically the bird is caged ,but internally his soul is not. ![]() He can find solace in the only thing he has song. The caged bird is imprisoned, but free of such greed. The words ‘fat’ and ‘sighing’ sum up the free bird he has all of his material desires tended to, but internally still craves more. The free bird can vividly imagine ‘fat worms’ and ‘sighing trees’, however the caged bird dreams not from experience, but longing. More analysis The contrast between birds is highlighted not only by physical freedoms, but mental ones. the birds song is to be feared and respected. The final stanza is a repetition of stanza three which serves as an emphasis on the caged bird.The fifth stanza depicts the bird in its cage, the cage that has now become the grave of the birds dreams, and once again the caged bird sings of freedom,.The stanza then describes how easy things seem to come to the free bird, as there are worms waiting for it at dawn on the lawn.The fourth stanza is about the free bird again, and how the bird although free” thinks of another breeze” showing that although the bird is free, the bird is not content and is greedy to have even more freedom, but again it is shown to be lazy in that is unsatisfied with the stream of wind that it is on but not enough to do something about it. The caged bird can “ be heard on the distant hill”.The bird is shown to rebel against all that holds it back in an attempt to be freed. It tells of how the caged bird sings for freedom, as if it still has hope for things it does not know of. The third stanza emphasizes the caged bird and its plight.The second stanza introduces the limitations set upon the caged bird, and how this affects the bird ,as the bird is still proud and cries out for freedom.the stanza shows us that the free bird is lazy and would rather float on the wind instead of make its own path. The poem begins by speaking of the free bird and how it has the freedom to go where ever, when ever, and can claim the sky because there are no other birds to contest with.This poem is a contrast between a caged bird and a free bird and their different characteristics, emphasizing on the Caged Bird. ![]()
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