Similar to "Sympathy", "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" also speaks of hope for freedom. ... In Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings", oppression is most dominant in line 26, "But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.... For example, line 1, "I know what the caged bird feels.... In "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings," there is an examination between the caged bird and the free bird. ... Both poems are different because in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", the author speaks on the experiences of a caged bird and a free bird, while...

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• Grade Level: High School

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Caged Bird) is based on her life in the early ages. ... She cites the last line of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy", which is "I know why the caged bird sings," for the title of her first autobiography (Bloom 2). ... Myra McMurry states in Role-Playing as Art in Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" that: "Dunbar's caged bird sings from the frustration of imprisonment; its song is a prayer. Angelou's caged bird sings also from frustration, but in doing so, discovers that the song transforms the cage from a prison that denies selfhood to...

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Flowers, Maya says, "I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me"(79). ... Angelou again uses the stylistic element of personification when she personifies the world by the emphasis of having doubts about continuing to revolve. ... In I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Angelou compares her speech and actions to winter's molasses. ... Maya feels powerless when Bailey and her mother are arguing and Bailey decides to leave "I was a little like Switzerland in World War II"(219). ... Babies learn from experiences, Children learn not to touch things hot or things sharp; teens learn about...

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Maya Angelou has touched the hearts of many with her shocking and inspirational autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and has amazed many with her provocative and eccentric life style. ... She then had the courage to sit down and write I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings she shows how hard it is to be both black and female. ... Angelou ends I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with the birth of her son, Guy. ... After I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou has written many more pieces of work and plans to keep making an impression on America...

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• Grade Level: High School

I Know Why Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography of the life of Maya Angelou. ... Throughout I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, the author lives in several towns and cities, all of which effect her differently. ... I think that a book that is similar to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Farewell to Manzanar. ... I also think that I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is just more interesting. ... I would strongly recommend I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings over Farewell to Manzanar any day ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Resilience is often displayed in the autobiography by Maya Angelou called, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This book revolves around the theme "although one may encounter many defeats in life, one must never be defeated" commented by Maya Angelou in the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This is what Maya wrote about what happened that hot afternoon in Stamp. ... Maya realized this when she states, "How was I supposed to blame the innocent man whom I had lurked into making love to me?" ... In conclusion, Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a true example of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Resilience is often displayed in the autobiography by Maya Angelou called, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This book revolves around the theme "although one may encounter many defeats in life, one must never be defeated" commented by Maya Angelou in the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This is what Maya wrote about what happened that hot afternoon in Stamp. ... Maya realized this when she states, "How was I supposed to blame the innocent man whom I had lurked into making love to me?" ... In conclusion, Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a true example of ...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Movie and Book The novel, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", by Maya Angelou is the first series of five autobiographical novels. ... For this reason, the novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" could have been a selected choice for our class. ... The novel speaks about the human condition-what we can endure, dream, fail and survive at. ... Another point of intersection with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Sula" is how the books reveal a girl's coming...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Essay Everyone has ups and downs to their life. ... In the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, there are many situations that shape Maya's personality and contribute to the person she is today. ... Infact Maya had a hard time understanding why her grandmother didn't explode in anger towards him. ... Through her struggles as well as accomplishments she learned a great deal about herself as well as those around her. ...

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Assignment 1: Response to the first part of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" Title I think that the title suggests a lot of things because, if you have a bird at home, which was just caught and put in a cage, it would really make noises, and therefore, I would say that this title suggests that Maya Angelou is constrained to something and is not free, either physically or emotionally. I mentioned Maya Angelou because as she is the author of this autobiography, this makes me presume that she will be the one caged up. ... Information about the Author I think the author is famous for her w...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiographical account about Maya Angelou's challenging life and encounter of an American society at a crucial period, a time of adjustment. ... Maya Angelou compares herself as a caged bird, one that always sings, although it is trapped in a caged. The cage would be our ruthless society and the bird victims of our evil human nature. ... After all her privation, she now found a reason to live, and a reason to sing in a caged society. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By: Maya Angelou The story starts off with Maya and Bailey both being young. ... I don't know why anyone would take up reading as a hobby. ... I don't think I"d want to talk to someone that put me out to live with my grandmother. ... She feels horrible about this, and she becomes mute. ... She doesn't know why for sure but she is. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Maya Angelou's famous poem, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she is able to touch a personal note on many occasions in my life. ... In her poem, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya says "The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own." ... I am not sure what exactly was said, but I know that my mother left and she later divorced my father. ... In her poem, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya says that, "The caged bird sings with a tearful trill of things unkno...

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• Grade Level: High School

I know why the Caged Bird Sings I think that this book was extremely informative. ... I thought a very interesting and funny part of the book was when Sister Monroe was in the church service and she would get all excited about what Rev. ... When Angelou's curiosity about sex moved her to the point where she wanted to know what it felt like she asked some random boy to come and have sex with her. ... The thing that I find in this part of the book that relates to our society as a whole is that all teenagers in America have curiosities about sex and that by," experimen...

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Angelou explains in the early chapters of I know why the caged bird Sings, just how hard life in Stamps is and how her people are able cope. Angelou conveys this so that the reader will have a greater understanding of what the times she lived in were like; she is also trying to teach us about the circumstances in which her people worked and the spirit that they demonstrated. ... Also, the most powerful use of onomatopoeia is at the end when Angelou wrote, "I winced to picture them sewing the coarse material- The fact that she winced definitely makes the reader realize the determination and p...

• Word Count: 358
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature Logs I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou pages 16-26 Well this book is starting out pretty boring. ... I guess that is why the library became her second home. ... pages 87-97 I don't really understand why Maya got so angry when Mrs. ... pages 146-156 I think in this chapter, Maya is beginning to learn more about herself in many ways. ... Talk about a bad ending... ...

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When the novel "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"" by Maya Angelou is read, a door is opened to a world that most try to forget. ... She writes concisely about life's little secrets. ... I take it as a boast of sorts, "Look how far blacks have come; look at what they have accomplished, and they haven't even begun to put up a fight. ... When Maya describes the speech given at her graduation, when the teacher says that some graduates have been able to become athletes, Maya is angered, but is smart enough to know that this was the typical assumption of even blacks: A black person...

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The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... For instance, her famous poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings inspired many women to embrace their talents in writing. ... Angelou's poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a significant poem that presents her writing style through the unique stylistic details th...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the memoir of the great African American author, poet, and entertainer, Maya Angelou. ... Maya was unsure about this trip because she didn't want to leave Momma behind. ... Vivian doesn't know how to be a good mother and is unable to meet the children's needs. ... But what Vivian didn't know was that she was putting Maya in danger. ... Maya get confused about Mr. ...

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Angelou did not change facts about her life, but fictionalized them in order to increase the impact of her massage. ... She witnessed evil that was generally directed at black women and uses the metaphor of caged bird singing in midst of a struggle to represent confinement as a result of oppression and racism, book contains a sequence of lesson on how to resist oppression. ... Angelou's rape experience depicts the suffering of African Americans and connects it to the theme of caged bird's death because Mr. Freeman who raped her told her to keep silent about the rape or he would kill...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also, in "Sympathy" he uses words and phrases to speak of freedom, such as " I know what the caged bird feels". It is his most anthologized poem after he wrote "We Wear Masks" because of the lines, "I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, When he beats his bars and he would be free." ... The most famous line "I know what the caged bird feels", tells us what the poem is basically about, that Dunbar knows how it feels to be imprisoned and not be able to so as you please. ... After his work "Sympathy" he grew as a poet because of his famous line " I k...

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Throughout her work, she transforms from the meek and insecure Marguerite Johnson in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, to the self-confident and intelligent Maya Angelou that is reflected in her book of poems, And Still I Rise. ... Maya's first autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, chronicles her tumultuous life from adolescence to the tender age of seventeen, by which time she is pregnant with her illegitimate son. ... McCurry says, "The almost novelistic clarity of Caged Bird results from the artistic tension between Angelou's recollected self and her authorial consciou...

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• Grade Level: High School

After reading the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" I thought a lot about what the book was trying to explain. ... I do believe that this book belongs among the classic works read by young adults. ... "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was a good way to show how easy our lives are today. ... Now that I have read this book I will have a greater respect and a newer understanding for those with hard lives and be thankful for the easy life I"ve been living....

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In her poems, "In My Missouri," "Equality," and her novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings it is evident that Angelou has led a very rough, but outstanding life and her life experiences are truly reflected in her writings. ... Angelou also wrote a poem about her mother's boyfriend who raped her. ... However, her greatest work by far is her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This is about her own life and how she was caged in by abuse and lived through prejudice and poverty. "Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is filled with bittersweet humor...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her poem, "Caged Bird," clearly expresses this theme. ... The caged bird represents the black race being held back from freedom by their skin color. ... The caged bird may have little hope of becoming free, but he yearns for freedom nonetheless. ... Her reply was, "How the hell do you know I did escape? You don't know what demons I still wrestle with."" ...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School