1. The poem depicts the meeting of a tame bird caged by humans and a free bird living freely in the forest. 2. The free bird invites the caged bird to fly with it to the forest, but the caged bird is accustomed to its confined life and invites the free bird to live with it in the cage instead. 3. They express their longing to be together but recognize they can never truly know each other, as the free bird fears the confinement of the cage and the caged bird has lost the ability to fly freely in the sky.

1. A PPT
on
THE TAME BIRD WAS IN A
CAGE

3. Polymath.
released his first poems under the
pseudonym Bhānusiṃha –sixteen.
Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora
(Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The
Home and the World) --best-known
works.
India and Bangladesh--national
anthems.
Santiniketan.
The Nobel Prize in Literature– 1913.

4. THE TAME BIRD WAS IN A CAGE
The Gardener poetry collection.
Song 6 the poet depicts about two birds living in
two different conditions
The bird cage --a clear symbol of the walls that
people build up in order to protect themselves
from the unknown.

5. The tame bird was in a
cage

6. the free bird was in
the forest.

7. They met when the time came,
it was a decree of fate.

8. The free bird cries, “O my
love, let us fly to the wood.”

9. The cage bird whispers, “Come
hither, let us both live in the
cage.”

10. Says the free bird, “Among bars, where is
there room to spread one’s wings?”

11. “Alas,” cries the caged bird, “I
should not know where to sit
perched in the sky.”

12. The free bird cries, “My darling, sing
the songs of the woodlands.”

13. The cage bird sings, “Sit by my
side, I’ll teach you the speech of
the learned.”

14. The forest bird cries, “No, ah no!
songs can never be taught.”

15. The cage bird says, “Alas for me, I
know not the songs of the
woodlands.”

16. Their love is intense with longing,
but they never can fly wing to wing.

17. Through the bars of the cage they look,
and vain is their wish to know each
other.

18. They flutter their wings in yearning,
and sing, “Come closer, my love!

19. The free bird cries, “It cannot be,
I fear the closed doors of the
cage.”

20. The cage bird whispers, “Alas, my
wings are powerless and dead.”