Inmaculada Polo Báñez

Poesía II

Poem 15 analysis
This poem is anonymous. We find three stanzas of quatrains and each verse is made of six
syllables. It has a consonant rhyme and its rhyme scheme is ababcdcdeaea. The main symbol
the author uses in her poem is the bird. She probably uses this animal because it deals with
freedom, the topic of the poem.

In the first stanza the poet refers to someone using the second person pronoun ‘you’. We do bit
have any evidences that she is referring to her beloved or another person. She wants to feel
free, but she cannot. She feels that she is limited by a person that does not let her ‘fly’. The other
person makes her feel as if she were inside a cage because the person the poet is referring to
does not want to let her go.

In the second stanza, the artist assumes that she will not be free because she cannot get out of
this situation. These circumstances make the poet think negatively, the place where she is
staying provokes her stress and pression, as if anything would change. In the first verse of the
second stanza, the poet makes reference to the cage as ‘precious’. This makes me think that the
poet has a direct connection with this ‘cage’, and she has affection for it, but she prefers to be
independent.

In the last stanza, the poet concludes that he will suffer because of the situation. She even claims
that it will cost him tears to overcome it. However, she dreams of being free like a bird. My
perception of the poem is that the poet wants to emancipate and her mother or her father does
not let her go. The cage is a metaphor of her house, that is why she refers to the cage as
‘precious’. However, despite she feels affection for this place and the members residing in it, the
poet wants to fly and become free.