Angelou grew up in a time of harsh racism. She held many jobs that are thought of as lowly, and treated as though she were nothing. The poem is her way of saying she was trapped in the world of...
Maya Angelou's book I know why the caged birds sing is a biography about her life.However, her poem with the same title is a comparison between the free bird and the one in a cage.
dummie it talks how she was influeced by the struggle in her family and when life became rough she heard some birds singing she got her poem their and ?idk