Wednesday, March 9, 2016

I know why the caged bird sings Comments

Rating: 4.8

A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange suns rays
...
Read full text

Maya Angelou
COMMENTS
Kathleen Mustoe 30 May 2024

A powerful poem for those without a voice, including children. The poem has universal appeal and is as relevant today in 2024 as it was when Maya Angelou wrote it.

1 0 Reply
Suresh Kumar Ek 05 September 2020

free birds wiil not sing poetry

8 16 Reply
Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 04 August 2020

Master piece by master poetess about free bird vs. Caged bird on freedom so touchingly told.....timeless piece...10+++

6 4 Reply
Edward Kofi Louis 04 August 2020

Freedom! ! ! Like a free bird. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

4 1 Reply
Bharati Nayak 04 August 2020

The caged bird sings with A fearful trill of things unknown But longed for still and his Tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom.- - - - - Freedom is so essential for all living spirit.

8 1 Reply
Sylvia Frances Chan 04 August 2020

A very thought provoking poem, the great poetess let the reader oft thinks a bit more in almost all her poems, that makes her poems so attractive and very impressive. Two final lines in the last stanza: Tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom......yess! The caged bird sings of freedom, this line says a very lot about her life in the USA and that of her groups'life.Since the death of Floyd important things have changed.

3 3 Reply
Mahtab Bangalee 04 August 2020

come come to the earth make the man and woman free make the human minds make the wings of minds free like the flying birds and sing the songs of happiness

2 1 Reply
Mahtab Bangalee 04 August 2020

fields after a lot of fields forest after a lot of forests Full of free sky over there wings, wings of the birds know only to fly fly, fly more high independently eat, drink and fly fly high the free birds no sad in free mind know only to fly, fly high over the sky but the caged wings the caged birds the jailed minds can't, can't fly independently so, sad in mind can't speak freely to the sky that's why sing lonely the song of dirge

4 0 Reply
Mahtab Bangalee 04 August 2020

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill Of things unknown but longed for still ........ The free bird thinks of another breeze And the trade winds soft through The sighing trees......great poetic expression about the caged bird and free bird

3 0 Reply

Tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom. We can still hear the song of the caged bird

1 0 Reply
Dr Antony Theodore 09 April 2020

But a caged BIRD stands on the grave of dreams His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream His wings are clipped and his feet are tied So he opens his throat to sing. On the grave of dreams stands the big bird..... the whole poem makes us think a lot. tony

1 0 Reply
George 09 April 2020

Also read " The School Boy" by William Blake.

3 0 Reply
Dr Antony Theodore 06 April 2020

The caged bird sings with A fearful trill of things unknown But longed for still and his Tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom. The songs of the caged bird is so painful. tony

1 0 Reply
Amaya Diwdini Silva 19 January 2020

in this poem the poet clearly describe about a free bird and a caged bird. The free bird symbolize white people.and caged bird represent black people.this poem gives very powerful examples to express the social conflit between innocent native black people and selfish white people who steals all the resources o native black people who lived in America.

6 1 Reply
Bob newton 26 September 2019

It’s great it’s the best poem I ever read it’s so real it’s like I can inmagine it in my head

7 2 Reply
Adeeb Alfateh 14 July 2019

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. But a caged BIRD stands on the grave of dreams His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream His wings are clipped and his feet are tied So he opens his throat to sing. great great great 10++++++++++++++++++++

9 2 Reply
How to abort in hogwatrz 11 April 2019

Please say Fetus Deletus

6 7 Reply
Manfred Schultz 21 March 2019

It seems, so often, we humans, can only be happy when some other creature, sentient or not, is unhappy. This was the first time I've read this, and it moves me to tears.

7 3 Reply
brinta 01 January 2019

praises fall short for her.such a powerful and vivid mind she has!

18 3 Reply
no name yet 17 September 2018

so sad alexa play despacito

30 21 Reply
Close
Error Success