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Paul Laurence Dunbar And Maya Angelou Comparison

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The poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Maya Angelou are similar in many ways. A way they are similar is by how they are both talking about a caged bird and how the caged bird feels. The two poems are also explaing the caged bird singing and how he is singing with fear and not with joy or glee. The authors are also trying to show how once the caged bird had freedom, what it was like to be free and not be trapped, and also to be able to fly. The authors are trying to explain how the caged bird feels and how they know what it's like to feel that way.

The poem ¨sympathy¨ really helped and inspired Maya Angelou to write her poem, ¨I know why the caged bird sings”. Something that inspired Maya Angelou is that ¨Sympathy¨ talks about how the caged
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