EXAMPLES

Example #1

 I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings by Maya Angelou

“But a bird that stalks

Down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through
His bars of rage
His wings are clipped and
His feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
With a fearful trill
Of things unknown
But longed for still
And his tune is heard
On the distant hill
For the caged bird
Sings of freedom.”

Example #2

 Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

 “The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite
number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a
low railing. From any hexagon one can see the floors above and below-one after another,
endlessly. The arrangement of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to
each side, line four of the hexagon’s six sides; the height of the bookshelves, floor to ceiling, is
hardly greater than the height of a normal librarian. One of the hexagon’s free sides opens onto
a narrow sort of vestibule, which in turn opens onto another gallery, identical to the first-
identical in fact to all.”