I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The purpose of this poem is to show that African Americans only wanted to experience the freedoms that white people had. She is saying that they wanted to experience America the way it should be instead of being discriminated against because they were the same color as "Normal Americans". The embodies the time period because people were tired of being discriminated against and being segregated they wanted the freedoms that eveyone else had. They were sick of being looked down upon and they were going to do everything they could to gain the equal rights.