The correct answer is The caged bird beats his wing against the cage and sings a prayer to heaven to gain his freedom.
Explanation:
The poem <em>Sympathy </em>By <em>Paul Laurence Dunbar </em>describes a bird that yearns for its freedom, but finds itself inside a cage. The bars are stained with blood when hitting against them. The wounds that are made when hitting throb like the wounds of her ancestors <em>"pain still throbs in the old, old scars"</em>. The caged bird sings, but its song is not happy, being rather a prayer that magnetizes its soul and rises to heaven <em>"It is not a carol of joy or glee, // But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core</em> , ....
Given this information we can say that the correct answer is The caged bird beats his wing against the cage and sings a prayer to heaven to gain his freedom.
