Sympathy Themes

"Sympathy" is all about wishing for freedom and hating on confinement. After all, it's a poem about a "caged bird," a bird that isn't free to fly around and eat little worms or build a nest in a tr...

"Sympathy" is a poem about a bird. So what in the wide world of sports does it have to do with race? A lot, actually—though we may not know this if we didn't know a little about the author of the...

We find loads of nature imagery in "Sympathy"—it is about a bird, after all. The natural imagery in "Sympathy" works to give us a sense of all that the poor caged birdie is excluded from. The bea...

We might not normally think of it this way, but a bird being stuck in a cage is kind of like us being stuck in a prison cell. Sure, those birds look so cute perching on their little swings in a cag...