I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the spring
ing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass; When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—I know what the caged bird feels! How is the environment outside the cage described? fearful and gloomy depressing and cloudy wet and rainy alive and inviting
The author explains all the splendors of nature whilst the cage imprisons him, preventing him from fully taking in the splendor that is around him. Hence creating slight hyperbole that displays his yearn to experience it all firsthand.
