"Caged Bird" is a 37-line poem by Maya Angelou. It was originally published in the poet's fourth volume of poetry entitled Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? in 1983. The title of the poem refers to Angelou's first book of her seven-volume autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969. Both the autobiography and the poem explore themes of gender, race, freedom, trauma, and the interconnectedness among them within an individual's identity.
Maya Angelou (born 1928)--author, poet, playwright, stage and screen performer, and director--is best known for her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), which recalls a young African...
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Standing before the church congregation, little Marguerite Johnson realized that everyone was looking at her, and that she wasn't a white girl with long blonde hair. As she remembered that she was a g...
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Maya Angelou's literary significance rests upon her exceptional ability to tell her life story as both a human being and a black American woman in the twentieth century. Four serial autobiographical v...
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Biography EssayMaya Angelou's literary significance rests primarily upon her exceptional ability to tell her life story as both a human being and a black American woman in the twentieth century. Five ...
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou