What I think the poem of Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar mean is that a bird that is locked down and can not go any were as When the sun is bright on the upland slopes
when the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, and the river flows like a stream of glass the bird is missing his/her freedom that it should have and when the bird trys to get away it is just hurting it self and the bird is lonely all alone saying to it self I should be free and then the bird is done caring of his death or being hurt and just beat his own self trying to get out of the cage and know he is free up in the sky looking down on that cage and just wondering and I think a person has the bird as his/her pet and is not taking go care of the bird and need to go to jail for animal abuse and it is not right for that bird to die for no reason and be on lock down in a cage
so that what I think on the poem of Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar the poem made me think so good bye.