Tupac A Caged Bird Analysis

I will compared and contrast two poems that deal with a similar topic of being caged. What I seen comparison in these poems are that we are giving a visual representation of people who are free and successful while there are people who are caged ready to be successful but are kept down either by their peers or the society they live in. In Tupac’s poem the rose represents the desire of people that are caged and how it takes a strong will to reach the so called “freedom”, freedom is represent as the surface. The surface brings fresh air and the light of the sun; all these things are vital for flowers to grow but also for human beings to live. This can also be seen interpreted as happiness, a brighter future. In Maya’s poem we are giving a representation of two things, a free bird and a caged bird, the free bird is able to live it’s dream without no restraint. While the caged bird dreams of what it like to be free, it is filled with anger for the free bird. The overall comparison between the two is how they use personification to describe issues that can be applied to human beings. The issues are those of oppression and people searching for the good life, in our society we are broken in classes, upper class, middle class and the lower class. The lower class is oppressed to both upper and middle class, the
The caged bird represents the lower class wanting to have a better outcome on life, it’s only way to do something is to sing, sing can be also taking action, rioting, trying to get the attention of the needs of the caged bird. The rose can also be seen as the second chapter, the bird and rose can be interchange, perhaps the caged bird breaks out the cage, the bird would not be caged but free to roam the endless sky, the rose with all it’s will was able to break out of the solid concrete and grow in a place that no one believe it