by Carol Rumensfrom Carol Rumens: The Guardian: 2084 by Carol Rumens
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Its poignancy owes a lot, too, to the way the anapaestic rhythms take over in each stanza after the more regular rhythm of the opening line, seeming to exult in the free, swooping flight denied the bird. Much is left unsaid, and really ought not to need saying, as each foreshortened last refrain-line reminds us. [Paul Laurence] Dunbar's parents had known the agony of being slaves; Dunbar understands that there are other kinds of cages for their children.
Sympathy
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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