Read the stanza. Then, complete the statements.

Question

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

–“Caged Bird,”
Maya Angelou

The figurative meaning of “he names the sky his own” is “
.”

Answer 1

he feels a sense of ownership and freedom in the sky.