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To me, Ansel Adams’s photograph, “North Dome, Basket Dome, Mount Hoffman, Yosemite” represent freedom and the American Dream. I think that his photograph is a perfect depiction of the distant hills about which Maya Angelou writes in her poem, “Caged Bird.” Angelou’s poem creates a contrast between the caged bird, who is constrained by “bars of rage,” and the free bird who, “leaps- on the back of the wind” and “dares to claim the sky.” In her poetry, Angelou paints a beautiful picture of the freedom that exists outside of the cage. The mountains’ stunning appearance and seemingly endless opportunities seem to characterize perfectly the freedom of which the caged bird sings. They represent a world without barriers or limits, where possibilities are infinite and are definitely worth singing about.