Answer:
Floats downstream, the trade winds soft, and dawn-light lawn.
Explanation:
These three are all metaphors of freedom. These are what the free bird did and encountered in the poem.
The caged bird experienced 2. his narrow cage and 5. the grave of dreams.
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In my opinion the topic of this book would have something to do with survival and to not give up at the hardest or lowest points
The Forever Young part symbolizing never wanting to become old what Is call the Peter Pan effect
Self reliance is reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.