How is symbolism used in the poem ‘The Caged Bird’? What is the significance of the caged bird and the cage?

Angelou uses the metaphor of a bird struggling to escape its cage, described in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, as a prominent symbol throughout her series of autobiographies. Like elements within a prison narrative, the caged bird represents Angelou's confinement resulting from racism and oppression.

Rascism

Explanation:

The caged bird represents the blacks being opressed, it's tied feet and clipped wings signify the way the blacks are tied down and can't achieve their full potentials. The cage is a barrier to the bird (blacks) it restricts the freedom of the bird and in reality,the cage represents bondage, restrictions, barriers.

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.