Short Summary of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
The poem is a wonderful piece of writing. Maya writings have all deep meanings and an element of sadness in her tone. She had gone through a lot of roughness in her life.She had been the victim of casteism, sexual harassment and understands the importance of love and care since she had been deprived of the same throughout her life. The poem ‘I know why the caged bird sings’ talks about the comparison between the people who are free and the one who are not the lucky ones.Here, she is talking about the poor black people who had suffered so much under the cruel white people. Throughout the poem, the free bird is referred to the free white people while the caged bird refers to the black community who had…