Read the excerpt from Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sit and Look Out” that Clara is using in her analysis of “The Caged Bird.”
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear the secret convulsive sobs . . .
Clara chose this excerpt to help support her interpretation of “The Caged Bird” because it has an extended metaphor that examines
secrecy.
sacrifice.
shame.
suffering