As an English major, I should be ashamed of my lack of knowledge about Maya Angelou. But I picked her autobiography/memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” off my classics list and ...

Maya Angelou sits in her hotel room, reliving her past and writing her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings". A ...

Inspired by the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem “Sympathy,” Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is a metaphorical representation of the African American experience. The poem contrasts the lives of two ...