What is the effect of beginning the poem by focusing on how "some men" find all their inspiration in nature? It allows the speaker to set up the contrast to his or her own views.
It creates the ideal the speaker works to achieve in the rest of the poem.
lt develops the key idea of how the speaker views nature.
lt suggests the speaker shares the same views as these others.

It is the oppression that they felt from being slaves or being Black.  Many of them hide their feelings of hate and anger behind fake smiles or “mask” from their tormentors.  Even after the Civil War, they still had to go through more trials as they were not treated equally as Whites.  In Sympathy, the caged bird’s injuries are caused by beating his wings on the cage where he tries to be free.  Both poems appeal to the public to see the injustice being done and begs them to do something about it.