Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
[his shadow shouts] on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
Read the passage from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29.”
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with [my bootless cries],
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
In both poems, the connotation of the underlined language implies
despair.
disgust.
hatred.
sorrow.