The Life And Works Of Phillis Wheatley Analysis
Me (Question 1): So, Phillis. Please tell me what your journey was like from Africa to America.
Phillis Wheatley: Well, it was an extremely uncomfortable ship ride, if that is what you were wondering. The rooms were only 5 feet 8 inches high. But “Twas mercy [that] brought me from my Pagan land, taught my benighted soul to understand that there’s a God, that there’s a Savior too.” (Wheatley, 37. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley). Some people on the ship would look at our race “with scornful eye” (Wheatley, 37. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley) and say, “’Their colour is a diabolic dye’” (Wheatley, 37. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley).
Me (Question 2): How did you learn English? Who taught you?
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Why is this?
Phillis Wheatley: “To soothe the troubles of the mind to peace, to still the tumult of life’s tossing seas, to ease the anguish of the parent heart, […] where shall a sovereign remedy be found? […] From thine [heavenly power].” (Wheatley, 54. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley). I believe that when a person dies, family and friends should morn but also rejoice in the fact that they are going on to their eternal lives with the Lord. They are leaving all the evil’s they delt with on Earth to go to heaven forever.
Me: (Question 5): When did people really start recognizing your work?
Phillis Wheatley: I would say when I translated one of Ovid’s Tales I started to get really recognized. My friends insisted that it be published because people were saying that it was so good for someone my age, let alone an African American slave. It was published a couple years later and that’s when the news that there was a smart African American slave really spread around Boston. My masters’ friends began wanting to meet me and it just sort of went from
Phillis Wheatley: Well, it was an extremely uncomfortable ship ride, if that is what you were wondering. The rooms were only 5 feet 8 inches high. But “Twas mercy [that] brought me from my Pagan land, taught my benighted soul to understand that there’s a God, that there’s a Savior too.” (Wheatley, 37. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley). Some people on the ship would look at our race “with scornful eye” (Wheatley, 37. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley) and say, “’Their colour is a diabolic dye’” (Wheatley, 37. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley).
Me (Question 2): How did you learn English? Who taught you?
Phillis Wheatley: …show more content…
Why is this?
Phillis Wheatley: “To soothe the troubles of the mind to peace, to still the tumult of life’s tossing seas, to ease the anguish of the parent heart, […] where shall a sovereign remedy be found? […] From thine [heavenly power].” (Wheatley, 54. The Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley). I believe that when a person dies, family and friends should morn but also rejoice in the fact that they are going on to their eternal lives with the Lord. They are leaving all the evil’s they delt with on Earth to go to heaven forever.
Me: (Question 5): When did people really start recognizing your work?
Phillis Wheatley: I would say when I translated one of Ovid’s Tales I started to get really recognized. My friends insisted that it be published because people were saying that it was so good for someone my age, let alone an African American slave. It was published a couple years later and that’s when the news that there was a smart African American slave really spread around Boston. My masters’ friends began wanting to meet me and it just sort of went from