Analysis of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is an utmost bona fide, descriptive memoir. This piece has a vast amount of stylistic devices that draw attention to the theme of Angelou's autobiography. When summoned together, these devices add up and make up beautiful life story. Just as a sweetly sung melody dances through the wind, Maya Angelou's style flows fluently throughout her writing in her autobiographical piece, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". As …

…the reader turns the last page, it appears the grand melody is over and complete, however Maya's song is an enduring one, one that will last eternally in the souls of all who read her work. Within the very title of the book, Maya claims I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, later on Maya confesses what she knows: "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."