Essays on Phillis Wheatley

In early America, to capture the feat of being female poet was extremely rare and was no easy task. Phyllis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson challenged what it meant to be a good poet, though for two completely different reasons. In Wheatley’s poetry, religious repetition and…

Freedom in Death: Wheatley’s Eulogies For a slave to write about slavery might be expected, but in using imagery of the slave trade as an overarching metaphor across her poems on death, Phillis Wheatley sets herself apart. Metaphor places both her journey to America and…

Close Reading of Phillis Wheatley’s Title Page Phillis Wheatley wrote the first ever published poetry book by an African American, during the time at which people in America were skeptical of a slave’s ability to read and write. The title page and the portrait of…

Paul Gilroy emphasizes the important role that the ship played during the African Slave Trade in The Black Atlantic. They were mobile elements that stood for the shifting spaces in between the fixed places that they connected. Accordingly they need to be thought of as…