USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Moreover, Phillis Wheatley wrote poems concerning the plight of black slaves in Colonial America. She appealed to her personal experience as a former slave to highlight the hypocrisy of slavery in the context of the Great Awakening.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poems on Various Subjects revealed that Wheatley’s favorite poetic form was the couplet, both iambic pentameter and heroic. More than one-third of her canon is composed of elegies, poems on the deaths of noted persons, friends, or even strangers whose loved ones employed the poet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phillis Wheatley Poems A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1778, the African-American poet Jupiter Hammon wrote an ode to Wheatley ("An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley"). His master Lloyd had temporarily moved with his slaves to Hartford, Connecticut, during the Revolutionary War.