Caged Bird

How has your week been?​

• Amazing!
• Good!
• Okay!
• Difficult

Match the following quotations to their explanations.

• Bird’s message can be heard beyond cage.

• 1. "His wings are clipped and his feet are tied, so he opens his throat to sing."​

• • It knows there's a better life somewhere

• 1. "And his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.”​

• Caged bird's dreams have been crushed.

• 1. "The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still."​

• Uses voice to express wish for freedom.

• 1. "But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams."​

The poor caged bird sings with a (a)   voice, showing it is afraid (stanza 3).

It doesn’t know what life is like beyond its ____ , as shown by the phrase “things _______” (stanza 3).

(a)  

We know it sings loudly as its song is heard on a “ _______ hill”. Its deepest desire is for _______ (stanza 6)​.

(a)  

Stanza four again shifts focus to the free bird, who daydreams about the breeze of the "_____ winds". It looks forward to finding "___/_____" on the lawn at dawn.

(a)  

Confident and free, the bird considers the whole (a)   to be his possession (stanza 1).

Draw an image of the caged bird based on one of the lines from the poem.

What is the 'caged bird' a metaphor for? Is Maya Angelou really talking about a bird?