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Comment 23 of 43, added on July 9th, 2012 at 3:04 PM.
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Comment 22 of 43, added on May 15th, 2012 at 6:24 AM.
This is great. Can anyone give examples of personification, similes,
metaphors, imagery and meaning?
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Comment 18 of 43, added on August 4th, 2011 at 10:19 AM.
Wheatley begins by crediting her slavery as a positive, because it has
brought her to Christianity. While her Christian faith was surely genuine,
it was also a "safe" subject for a slave poet. Expressing gratitude for her
enslavement may be unexpected to most readers.
The word "benighted" is an interesting one: it means "overtaken by night or
darkness" or "being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness." Thus,
she makes her skin color and her original state of ignorance of Christian
redemption parallel situations.
"mercy brought me" and the title "on being brought" is playing the
violence of the kidnapping of a child and the voyage on a slave ship
credits "mercy" with her voyage -- but also with her education in
Christianity. Both were actually at the hands of human beings.
In the second-to-last line, the word "Christian" is placed ambiguously. She
may either be addressing her last sentence to Christians -- or she may be
including Christians in those who "may be refined" and find salvation.
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Comment 17 of 43, added on August 4th, 2011 at 10:19 AM.
Wheatley begins by crediting her slavery as a positive, because it has
brought her to Christianity. While her Christian faith was surely genuine,
it was also a "safe" subject for a slave poet. Expressing gratitude for her
enslavement may be unexpected to most readers.
The word "benighted" is an interesting one: it means "overtaken by night or
darkness" or "being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness." Thus,
she makes her skin color and her original state of ignorance of Christian
redemption parallel situations.
"mercy brought me" and the title "on being brought" is playing the
violence of the kidnapping of a child and the voyage on a slave ship
credits "mercy" with her voyage -- but also with her education in
Christianity. Both were actually at the hands of human beings.
In the second-to-last line, the word "Christian" is placed ambiguously. She
may either be addressing her last sentence to Christians -- or she may be
including Christians in those who "may be refined" and find salvation.
Garima from India
Comment 16 of 43, added on April 11th, 2011 at 10:29 PM.
Phyllis Wheatleys "On being brought from Africa to Americ
Great. Her use of words, the irony set the tone. She would have been hung
out to dry if she openly criticize her captors. You could imagine what
would have happened to her if she was open.
Stella Henderson from United States
Comment 15 of 43, added on January 8th, 2011 at 9:11 AM.
Nice blog, unsympathetic! Inventor wonderful servant!
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Comment 14 of 43, added on September 14th, 2010 at 3:40 PM.
Phillis Wheatley
Before Public Enemy and Tupac you have a woman who used her intellect
to convey a message of hope and equality,or a sarcastic attack on the US
power structure? I am not quite sure !!
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