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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma .
- United States
- Maya Angelou
- Autobiography
- 1969 (Random House), 1st edition
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of seven autobiographical works by American writer Maya Angelou, published in 1969. The book chronicles her life from age 3 through age 16, recounting an unsettled and sometimes traumatic childhood that included rape and racism.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiographical coming-of-age memoir by Maya Angelou, first published in 1969. The book covers Angelou’s childhood and adolescent years, focusing on her experiences as an African American girl in the segregated South.
for the caged bird. sings of freedom. The free bird thinks of another breeze. and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees. and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn. and he names the sky his own. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream.
Poem I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou : A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Angelou investigates the effects of systemic segregation and racism on the minds, bodies, and identities of black individuals. In many ways I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings provides readers with a crucial account of the first half of the 20th century from the perspective of a Black southerner.
