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Which best describes the theme of "Sympathy"?
Those who are imprisoned do not understand why they are not free.
Those who are trapped eventually forget the feeling of being free.
The psychological pain of being trapped is greater than any physical pain.
Those who break the rules of society deserve to be imprisoned.

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The psychological pain of being trapped is greater than any physical pain.

Reason: Dunbar’s speaker compares a caged bird’s frantic wing-beating and “nightmare scream” to emotional longing for freedom, emphasizing the inner anguish of confinement rather than physical injury.