Caged Bird by Maya Angelou is a sublime poem which illustrates a caged bird and a free bird. The poet’s purpose is to tell people about racism but she is not pointing at racism directly, she refers to a caged bird to describe racism and restriction. Maya Angelou was an African American who was born on the 4th of April 1928. In 1937 there was lots of racism towards them and in 1969 when she was 41 years old she decided to create this poem to tell people about racism and trauma to try to stop racism. The main mood of this poem is upsetting and this is shown through the adjective she utilizes “fearful” and the verbs she utilizes, “the wings are clipped and his feet tied so he opens his throat to sing.” As the bird is entrapped, his wings are
