Question

Which lines from "Sympathy" best express the idea that the speaker can relate to the caged bird’s plight? “When the wind stirs soft through the springing 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 stealsâ€"” “I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;” “When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee,”.

Answer 1

The lines from Sympathy which best express the idea that the speaker can relate to the caged bird's plight is:

Option C

• I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars.

According to the total lines, we can see that the narrator talks about the caged bird and how powerless it is in the cage and flaps its wings at the cage, hurting itself simultaneously.

 

Paul Laurence Dunbar's  Sympathy is a sonnet that depicts the horrible experience of being a bird trapped in a cage. The bird in this sonnet flaps its wings and sings, yet not because it's happy. It flaps its wings and sings because it's, indeed, miserable.

The topic of the sonnet Sympathy is racism, and the imprisoning impact it has on the spirit. In the sonnet, the writer Paul Lawrence Dunbar compares himself to a caged bird.

This sonnet has a basic title Sympathy. On one level, this title indicates the sympathy that the speaker feels for the caged bird. He relates to this bird and he feels its suffering. In this sense, the sonnet's title can be perceived to mirror the speaker's own identification with the bird.

Thus, we can see that the lines which best communicates the idea that the speaker can relate to the predicament of the caged bird is the place where he says that he knows why the caged bird beats its wings and why its blood is on the savage bars.

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