The answer is A. they have light and dark values to show form.
Given that the caged bird in the poem is an extended metaphor for the historic struggle of the African American community under historical and ongoing racist oppression, the idea that freedom is a biological impulse argues against the inhumane cruelty of oppression
In this excerpt from Ingrid Jonker’s poem, “The child is not dead,” the “child” most likely refers to the struggle for freedom.
Jonker wrote her poem after going to the Philippi police station and seeing the body of a child who had been shot dead in his mother's arms by the police in the township of Nyanga in Cape Town. In 1960, 69 people were killed while marching to the police station to protest having to carry passbooks to travel in their own native country in Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg.
<em>The poem evokes the struggle and longing for freedom while being violently oppressed.</em>
<span>In "All the World's a Stage," Shakespeare compares all men and women to actors. The correct answer is C. He says "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..." He compares life to a play, where everyone is an actor acting in their own respective plays. </span>
