... 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 writing poetry with a dominant influence of religious and moral themes. In this poem she uses a highly intelligent and scathing verbal irony. Although it is written in a deceptively mild manner one can catch the hints of ... situational and cosmic irony. In the second sta...

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