... their points to their audience. Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a piece from the celebrated African poetess Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley is known for ... the majority of whites of that time "Some view our sable race with scornful eye,/"Their colour is a diabolic die."/Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,/May be refin"d, and joined th" angelic train (lines 5-8). Here Wheatley is addressing the attitudes of the whites...

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... the epiphany in the line: "And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers", the reader is able to realise that the environment is slowly dying, just like flowers once they are picked. The figurative imagery in the lines: "The world is too much with us; late and soon", and, ... "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers!" reinforces the fact that mankind is jaded by materialism, thus they are destroying nature instead of embracing it. When all these elements ... are considered, it can be seen that the beauty of the universe has a moral, that is, as we are ! more focused on materialis...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate