Sympathy/By Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Response
I know What the caged bird feels, Alas! The connection I Made with is that Paul
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; Wants everyone to think if you ever
When the wind stirs soft through the spring grass Get lost in anything go back and keep
And the river flows like a stream of glass; Going until you get it done. A,b,b,b,a,-
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, c,c is the rhyming in The first line. The
And the faint perfume from it chalice steals--- Poem has 3 Stanzas and 7 lines in each.
I know what the caged bird feels! In the poem there is Personification
Like, "The wild stirs soft", "The bird
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, sings", "The river flows like a stream
Till its blood is red on cruel bars; of glass,"
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting,---
I know why he beats his wing!
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;
It is not a carol; of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,
But a plea, That upward to Heaven he flings---
I know why the caged bird sings!
