uses
rich natureto evoke the contrast between the caged and free birds. The caged bird can barely
sense the natural world outside the cage but retains hope that it will once fly outside in that
world. The free bird not only inhabits that world but thinks and feels its possibilities and
effects.
The free bird stanzas feature the sky and the earth as the full
environment open to the bird. The celestial features of wind and sun are paired with the
terrestrial ones of trees, worms, and grass. The sky belongs to the bird: he names the sky his
own. The wind and breeze, in particular, are shown in several ways: glossed as a stream on which
the bird floats, a breeze, and...
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