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 ==                                                                 Caged Bird                   by Maya Angelou      == 

    The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill 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 his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird     sings of freedom. <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #4ae1f2; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #4deae9; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">Analysis: "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou is a poem with many metaphors. The most important metaphor, the caged bird, represents African Americans hoping to achieve freedom. This poem is also about Maya herself, as she had many hardships when she was young, and she had always hoped to escape her oppressed life, especially as a black in the South. The caged bird, African Americans, whose only form of expression is singing, sings for freedom that it has not known before, but still wishes to have. The free bird is just that, free, and can do what he pleases, when he pleases. <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #4ae1f2; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #4deae9; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center">    Summertime

An Original Poem



<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center">       <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center">        <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center">        <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center">      <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #e8e90c; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">   With summer comes fun, sand, beach and sun,

<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">   New swimsuits and flip-flops for everyone. The faster out of school the better, When everyone is ready for summertime weather. Girls, grab your bottles of suntan lotion,

Boys, it’s time for swimming in the ocean. Summertime is time for one-on-one, Sand under your feet after the day is done. And when the sun has said good-bye for the day, Young lovers all come out to gather and play. So when let out of school, run to the sand and the sun, <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> For the beach is the host of all summertime fun.

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<span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #00f6ff; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center">     No Air By Jordin Sparks <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #4fea2e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f82ac2; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #fb2dd9; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> (feat. Chris Brown) <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #4fea2e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f82ac2; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: #fb2dd9; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">  Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air

If I should die before I wake It's 'cause you took my breath away Losing you is like living in a world with no air Oh

I'm here alone, didn't wanna leave My heart won't move, it's incomplete Wish there was a way that I can make you understand

But how do you expect me to live alone with just me 'Cause my world revolves around you It's so hard for me to breathe

//[Chorus:]// Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air Can't live, can't breathe with no air That's how I feel whenever you ain't there There's no air, no air Got me out here in the water so deep Tell me how you gonna be without me If you ain't here, I just can't breathe There's no air, no air

No air, air No air, air No air, air No air, air

I walked, I ran, I jumped, I flew Right off the ground to float to you There's no gravity to hold me down for real

But somehow I'm still alive inside You took my breath, but I survived I don't know how, but I don't even care

So how do you expect me to live alone with just me 'Cause my world revolves around you It's so hard for me to breathe

//[Chorus]//

No air, air No air, air No air, air No air, air No more It's no air, no air

//[Chorus x2]//

No air, air No air, air No air, air No air, air

Analysis:

The song "No Air" by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown uses air as a sybol of two people in a relationship. Without air, or each other, they feel they would not be able to live. This song can be explaining two aspects of love. One interpretation of this song can be about about a person breaking up with someone they love, but not realizing how much they really love them until they're gone. The lyrics "tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air/ Can't live, can't breathe with no air/ That's how I feel whenever you ain't there" represents that they are "suffocating" and all they want to do is be with the other person, but they cannot because they're gone. This song can also be taken as being about being in love and a relationship, and not wanting to ever lose the other person.



Where The Sidewalk Ends By Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.

Analysis: The poem "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein is a poem of a place with imaginative peace. Where the sidewalk ends is also a metaphor of a better place in the lives of those who have had difficulties. Shel Silverstein uses imagery throughout the poem, such as when he says "And there the grass grows soft and white, / And there the sun glows crimson bright", and "this place where the smoke blows black/ And the dark street winds and bends." He uses such imagery to spread his message that the world needs change, and that could only be achieved if everyone had more innocence and imagination, like children. <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #4fea2e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">      <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #35ebf3; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #050505; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">     <span style="FONT-SIZE: 70%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">