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This 4 page paper discusses the life and works of the first published African-American woman, Phillis Wheatley. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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seven, she was too young to be sold as a slave in the West Indies or the South, but was instead sold to John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston, on
July 11, 1761 ("Phillis Wheatley"). Its likely that her first name was derived from that of the ship she arrived on, the Phillis. The Wheatleys educated the little girl,
a very unusual thing to do at that time ("Phillis Wheatley"). Wheatley was obviously extremely intelligent, because "within sixteen months of her arrival in America she was reading passages from
the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, astronomy, geography, history, and British literature ("Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)"). The girl had a gift for writing poetry, which was "encouraged by her owners and
their daughter, Mary," with the result that Philliss first poem was published when she was 12 years of age ("Phillis Wheatley"). Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, was a friend
of the Wheatleys, and she also "greatly encouraged" Phillis and "financed the publication of her book of poetry, Poems" ("Phillis Wheatley"). A former slave named Obour Tanner was also an
influence on Phillis, as well as supporting her work. Wheatley was "especially fond of writing in the elegiac poetry style, perhaps mirroring the genre of oration taught to her through
the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pentameter ("elegiac stanza"). Iambic pentameter is the style in which
an unaccented syllable is followed by an accented one; we find it a lot in Shakespeare: "To BE or NOT to BE." Here are the first four lines of Wheatleys
poem "Ocean": Now muse divine, thy heavnly aid impart, The feast of Genius, and the play of Art. From high Parnassus radiant top repair, Celestial Nine! propitious to
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