70.8k views
3 votes
What do you think the title "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" means?

1 Answer

1 vote

Answer:

Maya Angelou wrote an autobiographical book entitled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The title of the poem, “Caged Bird” is significant because the poem compares the lives of the bird who lives freely, and the one who is confined to a cage. Both birds are symbolic of the groups of people they represent.

Step-by-step explanation:

I put this answer for the same question that someone else had.

User Florian Koch
by
3.9k points