Two_Birds

Two Birds Maya Angelou grew up in the racist south and faced many obstacles that ordinary people could not overcome. She was able to use her troubles as inspiration to many wonderful works of poetry. In Maya Angelou’s famous poem, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she is able to touch a personal note on many occasions in my life. I could relate the poem to every developmental stage in my life, but the part that serves as the greatest connection between Maya Angelou and me would be our childhood experiences. As a child Maya was abused by a father figure and shuffled around from house to house. She was a target of ridicule and harassment, and yet she persevered. She worked through her traumatic experiences overcame them with ultimate grace and dignity. In her poem, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya says “The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.” What I believe this means is that I should not give in to failure, maya, mother, father, bird, time, sings, poem, know, day, caged, black, angelou, new, life, grandmother, cage, believe, woman, things, should, says, ridicule, people, made, help, faced, even, each, during, connection, because, another, am, after, work