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