Sympathy

What is the speaker describing in the first stanza?

What is the speaker describing in the first stanza? How does this description help the reader to understand how the caged bird feels? How does the speaker's identification with the bird's feeling tell you something about how the speaker feels? Use evidence from the text to support your response.

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The speaker described how it must feel to be a bird trapped in a cage by contrasting its imprisonment with the experiences of a bird that is free.

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