Comparing Poems 'Caged Bird And' Under The Rice Moon

Everyone fought for freedom and for slavery to end, but did anybody fight for the freedom of poor caged birds? In “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, the speaker talks about the differences between a caged bird and a free bird. In “Under the Rice Moon” by Rhiannon Puck, a bird just wants to be free and fly, but no one understands. Everyone thinks that the bird wants to live caged and safe, but the only thing the bird wanted was to be able to roam around the sky without being caged. As you can see, in the poem “Caged Bird” by and the story “Under the Rice Moon,” the author and poet clearly illustrate the theme of ‘freedom.’ In the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, the speaker explains how the free bird’s life is and how the caged bird’s life is.
Every time someone tries to take care of the bird, the bird is still caged and imprisoned. Eventually, a kind, yet sick, girl understands the bird’s pain. She lets go of the bird and lets him roam through the sky. In the text it states, “As he leaves the room the little bird coos, ‘Oh, please let me fly under the rice moon tonight!’ But the man does not understand the swallow’s language. When the girl wakes suddenly in the middle of the night, the first thing she sees through her fever is a small cliff swallow blinking at her from behind the bars of a rattan cage, She knows too well how terrible it is to be kept inside.” This is an important moment because this is when the bird is finally going to get freedom. This is a crucial moment because the bird finally met someone who felt the same kind of imprisonment as him and decided to free him. This helps us to understand that no matter who or what you are, you don’t deserve to be trapped. The theme of this story is ‘freedom.’ It is about how no one wants to be trapped and taken care of. It is about how everyone wants to be free even if it risks your
The theme is shown in different ways, but they are both about the same topic. In “Caged Bird,” the poet expresses her feelings about freedom through the differences in life between a free bird and a caged bird. In “Under the Rice Moon,” the author expresses his feelings about freedom through a story about a caged bird, trying to be free. Both stories are about how everyone needs freedom and about how no one should be caged or trapped. Yet, both writers have a very different way of conveying the overall