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The following text is adapted from Countee Cullen's 1926 poem "Thoughts in a Zoo."<br/><br/>They in their cruel traps, and we in ours,<br/><br/>Survey each other's rage, and pass the hours<br/><br/>Commserating each the other's woe,<br/><br/>To mitigate his own pain's fiery glow.<br/><br/>Man could but little proffer in exchange<br/><br/>Save that his cages have a larger range.<br/><br/>That lion with his lordily, untamed heart<br/><br/>Has in some man his human counterpart,<br/><br/>Some lofty soul in dreams and visions wrapped,<br/><br/>But in the stifling flesh securely trapped.<br/><br/>Based on the text, what challenge do humans sometimes experience?