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Read the Above Lines and Answer the Question that Follow. What is Meant by “Free Bird Thinks of Another Breeze”? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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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.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

What is meant by “free bird thinks of another breeze”?

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Solution

The poet wants to show the freedom which the free bird has. It can soar in the skies to various places , wherever it wants to go to find its food and enjoy the breeze.

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