Caged Bird

How has your week been?​

• Amazing!
• Good!
• Okay!
• Difficult

Match the following quotations to their explanations.

• • It knows there's a better life somewhere

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

• Caged bird's dreams have been crushed.

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

• Uses voice to express wish for freedom.

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

• Bird’s message can be heard beyond cage.

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

The poor caged bird sings with 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).

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

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.

Confident and free, the bird considers the whole ___ 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?