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These are the ways i think these poems are similar. The first way i think that they are similar is that they are about birds that want to be free. The second reason i think they are the same is that they talk about slavery and that they want to be free. An example is that in the poems both the birds want to be free like slaves. The two poems are the same because they both want to get out of the cage and want to be free. The way that these poems are the same is that the two poems are about birds that want to be free.

These are the ways i think “sympathy inspired maya Angelou's writing. One way i think it inspired her is that she wanted to write poems and he was a very good poem writer. She was maybe inspired because even though they were

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