“Till its blood is red on the cruel bars”
Speaker seems to be getting angrier cause his images are getting more violent. Dunbar seems to be able to write about the plight of the bird because he too has felt its pain.
“I know why the caged bird..”
This feeling is repeated throughout the poem and indicates that Mr. Dunbar was familiar with the pain of a creature in imprisonment. He knows what it is like to want to be trapped and longing to be somewhere else. We all know how this feels; each time we go to work, school, church, a family function, etc. and daydream of being on a beach, at home in the bed or at the movies.
Some of the other literary devices in the poem are
Alliteration - when the wind stirs soft through the springing grass
Simile - the river flows like a stream of glass
Metaphor - Caged bird = slaves or African Americans who are not FREE
Rhyme - Alas, grass and glass
Imagery - first bird sings and the first bud opes, and the faint perfume from
Repetition - I Know what the caged bird feels
Speaker seems to be getting angrier cause his images are getting more violent. Dunbar seems to be able to write about the plight of the bird because he too has felt its pain.
“I know why the caged bird..”
This feeling is repeated throughout the poem and indicates that Mr. Dunbar was familiar with the pain of a creature in imprisonment. He knows what it is like to want to be trapped and longing to be somewhere else. We all know how this feels; each time we go to work, school, church, a family function, etc. and daydream of being on a beach, at home in the bed or at the movies.
Some of the other literary devices in the poem are
Alliteration - when the wind stirs soft through the springing grass
Simile - the river flows like a stream of glass
Metaphor - Caged bird = slaves or African Americans who are not FREE
Rhyme - Alas, grass and glass
Imagery - first bird sings and the first bud opes, and the faint perfume from
Repetition - I Know what the caged bird feels