Question

What are the metaphors in the poem "your world"

POEM:
Your world is as big as you make it
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side.

But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky-line encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity.

I battered the cordons[1]
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!

Answer 1

coner cradled because those make sense

Answer 2

I know, for I used to abide

In the narrowest nest in a corner