Question

Which explains why the speaker in the poem sympathy and the author Paul Laurence Dunbar may have similar feelings

A) Dunbar is an animal activist who founded an organization for animal rights.

B) Dunbar was an African American citizen in a society that limited his rights and freedoms

C) Dunbar was a man who kept many animals in captivity at his home.

D) Dunbar was an accomplishment African American poet with many awards and honors

Answer 1

The speaker in the poem and Paul Laurence Dunbar may have similar feelings because B. Dunbar was an African American citizen in a society that limited his rights and freedoms.

In the poem "Symphathy", the main theme was the suffering of a caged bird that lived a miserable life, resembling that of oppressed African Americans who had been enslaved by white people in the United States during 18th and 19th centuries.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African American poets to achieve great recognition in the U.S. and lived in a time when, although slavery had already been abolished, racial discrimination, political inferiority and more were still common in African American's lives. His parents were freed slaves from Kentucky and separated after he was born, passing on their stories about the life in the plantation to him. This is why there is so much resemblance between the speaker in the poem and the author: he knows what a caged bird feels like, since his parents and him felt exactly the same way as African American citizens.

Answer 2

Answer: (B)

Dunbar was an African American citizen in a society that limited his rights and freedoms  

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