What were the two scenes seen by the caged bird?

The caged
bird doesn't see very much. Indeed, as the speaker says in stanza two, the caged bird "can
seldom see through / his bars of rage." Throughout the poem, we are told only what the
caged bird does not see.

In the fifth stanza, the speaker says that the caged
bird "stands on the grave of dreams." This is of course a , and the caged bird does
not literally see this grave. Nonetheless, the image implies that the caged bird sees,
metaphorically, only the bars of the cage and the death of its freedom that those bars
symbolize.

The fact that the caged bird sees only the bars of his cage is in
stark contrast to the scenes that the free bird sees. The free bird sees "the orange sun
rays" and "the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn." These images of course
emphasize, by contrast, the dearth of scenes available to the caged bird.