Caged Bird What does it mean to be caged or free? In Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” poem, she compared the conditions of a caged bird and free bird. The cage bird showed imprisonment and fear. While as the free bird showed freedom and joy. The comparison of these two birds can also be compared with statuses of people lives in the world. For example, Harriet Tubman could be considered a free bird, a caged bird, and both at the same time. First off, Harriet Tubman is considered a caged bird because she was born into slavery. With her being born into slavery this represents imprisonment like the cage bird. She never had any freedom as a child because only at the age of 5 she worked as a house slave and later at the age of 12 she began working in
