The speaker says that the cage-bird flutters its sorrowful wings. The wings are being described as ‘sorrowful’ because
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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 speaker says that the cage-bird flutters its sorrowful wings. The wings are being described as ‘sorrowful’ because
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Correct answer: (B) the bird is sad as it is caged
Explanation
The sorrow belongs to the bird, which is unhappy because it is shut in a cage; its sadness is transferred to its wings.