The caged bird is described as ‘a crippled thing’ because
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
Your pretty bird in a gilded cage
Flutters its sorrowful wings
But there’s never a cage-bird yet could sing
As my bird sings.
He’s little and brown and wild and shy,
But free to build and thrive,
Your poor bit thing behind its bars
Is only half alive!
My bird sings out with a true wood-note,
Your pipes of sorrowful things,
And never, now, may he learn the song
That my bird sings.
Never, now, may he wheel and soar
With the sunshine on his wings,
O, a bird in a cage is a crippled thing
But my bird sings!
The caged bird is described as ‘a crippled thing’ because
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Correct answer: (B) it is not free to fly and soar
Explanation
The poem says the caged bird may never 'wheel and soar'; it is 'crippled' because the cage takes away its freedom to fly.