Alicia+Key's+Higher+Purpose

First let me start off by saying that Alicia Keys is an AMAZING poet/singer/songwriter/humanitarian. She has a great love for writing. Her poems and songs have great meaning and are very sentimental. In this poem inparticular she has expressed, like Maya Angelou, the everyday problems and struggles that a woman goes through. She has also expressed what it was like to feel alone and like a "Caged Bird". Alicia Keys may not be referring to herself in this poem but rather to the woman who feel "caged" in. This poem is very powerful and is something that should not be looked at as JUST a poem but rather a womans "anthem". After anaylyzing this poem I’ve come to the conclusion that her higher purpose for this poem is to give the reader something to be able to relate with. In this case that topic that would relate to the reader is going to be about feeling alone and "caged" in. Alicia Keys uses quotes such as "Right now I feel like a bird, caged without a key.". This quote describes her feeling at the moment. There are many possibilities to what could have happend to her that day and the reader will be able to relate to what she is saying. She also says "Everyone come to stare at me. With so much joy and revelry.". These lines are telling us that she feels like a animal in a zoo. I say this because animals in a zoo are stared at 24/7, and people are typically happy and joyful while at the zoo. All in all this poem has great meaning and I believe that Alicia Keys does a great job of portraying the mental struggles of a woman.