Sympathy By Paul Dunbar Analysis

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In our world everyone deserves freedom. Most of us want complete freedom, but some do and some don’t. We fight for it in everyday life. It could be anything that you are fighting for. That’s why people keeps on fighting for freedom. In the poem, “Sympathy” by Paul Dunbar and the “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou reveals suffering of a caged bird, which wanted freedom like rest of the birds and keeps on singing for it. Freedom is not free, it is costly.

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unheard because it paints on the canvas of life with the colors of their souls. Paul Laurence Dunbar and Maya Angelou used poetry to voice the yearning for freedom from oppression in “Sympathy” and “I know why the caged bird sings.” Notwithstanding the similarities in theme and imagery, the poems differs from each other in the use of poetic devices, tone, and language. “Sympathy” was composed by Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1899. Albeit the Union’s victory in the Civil War abolished slavery as well as…

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