Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”

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.


Read the passage from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29.”

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,

In both poems, the connotation of the underlined language implies

despair.
disgust.
hatred.
sorrow.

Respuesta :

In both poems, the connotation of the underlined language implies that there is a feeling of:

  • A. despair.

According to the given poems, we can see that there is a common theme which is one of despair as the narrators in both poems are frustrated because they do not know what else to do.

As a result of this, the caged bird says that while he stands on the "grave of his dreams", his wings are clipped. In the same vein, the narrator in Sonnet 29 says that he is an outcast and  filled with disgrace.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A

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