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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

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The poem “Caged Bird” from Maya Angelou and “Hope is the thing with feathers” from Emily Dickinson are similar in the tone but different in their purpose. Both of the poets wrote these poems through their struggle in life by comparing their life to a bird. The poems both sounded sad, but while Angelou’s bird cannot do anything except singing, Dickinson’s bird always has hope in every situations.

Angelou’s poem are just sad and depressing, the bird in this poem is locked up in a cage and cannot get out (8-13). Dickinson’s poem also sounded a little sad, because she talked about how the bird has to go through many struggles. Fortunately, Dickinson’s bird is not locked in a cage, but it has to face more struggle in life. (4-6)

Racism and oppression

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