Does a bird in a cage sing as sweetly as a bird who is free?

Answer 1

No. We had a bird, and each time she heard the other birds outside, she began to mimic them perfectly. Silly as this sounds, she seemed to form a friendship with one. Each day, the outside bird would come to the room she was in, and sing to her.. she'd sing back. Each time the outside bird left, she'd pace in her cage.. in desperation.
I will never own a caged bird again. I think too highly of all forms of life.............

Answer 2

I see them on the street at night, the bird and the cage. Often she sings sweetly and the cage pretends to listen. The cage, which only has one side, follows beside the bird, and it likes to forget that it is even a cage. And the bird forgets, too.



I see them in the shadows at times, when it is dark and quiet, the bird and the cage. If you get close enough you can hear the cage squeak like a bird and the bird takes it for singing. So, the bird and the cage sing to each other in the dark and sometimes they forget what they really are and what they are doing and where they are from.



The cage forgets it is a one sided cage, an odd thing really. It never wanted to be a cage. It would rather be a hunter, or maybe a brave hunter’s knife. Anything but a cage, because cages don’t capture things, or even kill them; they only exist to keep. But keeping is good enough when they’re aren’t so many birds. Indeed, he has heard of places where birds fly free, where they sing and other birds sing back. (Maybe there he could even be a bird himself?) He does not believe in such a place. He knows where he is now is not such a place. And so he is content to keep the bird he has.



The bird forgets it doesn’t see the cage, a sad thing really. It knew it was a bird its whole life and it loved to fly and sing. She hears the songs of other birds and thinks herself one of them. “To sing and fly, to sing and be free, the life of a bird is the best that there can be.” She has heard of cages, but she has never seen one. Rarely do birds see cages. Maybe cages don’t really exist, she thinks. Maybe they do, but I will never see one, she thinks.



One day, at night, she finally sees the cage.



I see them at night, the bird and the cage. Seldom, but often too, the bird sees the cage. The bird screams. The bird thrashes its wings and turns its head wildly to look away. Oh, so violent is the bird! But the cage holds firm, the one sided cage. It squeaks loudly, it closes tightly. And when the bird screams and the bird claws and the bird thrashes its wings against the cage all of it goes unheard by the cage, who pretends, but cannot listen.



Other birds see this, (I see this), and they think the screaming bird is silly. Cages don’t exist, you silly bird, they say. (I say nothing.)



Finally, the screaming bird grows tired and quiet, and the cage—that gets not tired or loud—holds her tightly. The bird will not sing for a while, perhaps. Yet the bird forgets this, too.

Answer 3

The caged bird sings more sweetly. It lacks the experience and knowledge of the free bird, but it also knows nothing about the evils that face the world. It sings in an ignorant bliss which is much more sweet.

Answer 4

I know why the caged bird sings...but the free bird is constantly being judged, called names and treated less than a parrot.

Answer 5

This totally depends on whether or not you are the bird in the cage, the free bird, or the vacationer who is sitting on the balcony watching nature wake up at sunrise.

Answer 6

No, but I know why the cage bird sings, says Maya Angelou - and, it's true, it sings in hope and in memory - even if its from the universal mind.

Answer 7

That depends. If the bird has never expirenced freedom, then yes, it will sing with all it's heart. But once it expirences freedom, if you put it back in cage, it will never be the same.

Answer 8

My blue and gold "caged" macaw, doesnt sing, but she can bark, meow, cluck, crow, says dozens of words, screams when we watch horror movies, laughs at the comedy's. I guess she is not truly caged, as she is a escape artist, and spends most of the day on top of her cage to keep a eye on her domain. This is one happy bird, and when she is bored, she tells us LOUDLY

Answer 9

Not if the free bird is a crow or a seagul or like a loud obnoxious peacock.

Answer 10

I THINK THAT THE BIRD THAT IS FREE SINGS MORE SWEETLY