Phillis Wheatley has written many poems in her lifetime. Many of these poems have similar themes and seem to change with her mood. Events in her life are described in her poems. When you dig in deeper into Wheatley’s poems you can begin to break it down. Freedom and slavery are the common thoughts on her mind in many of these poems. She shows this in her ways of her creative mind written down in history. In Wheatley’s, “On being brought from Africa to America” she describes her journey from the Africa to America and her feeling of freedom. To her the journey was felt a s a feeling of freedom, a new start, and a fresh slate. She was being brought to a foreign land, and a land not her own. She describes in the poem, “TWAS mercy brought to me from my Pagan land.”
Wheatley describes her feeling of freedom from her home country. She accepts that her life is on…show more content… She begins, “Of wrongs, and grievance unredress’d complain.” Wheatley tells about how the tyranny was very harsh and crewel. This brings up the theme of slavery. She later goes on to note, “No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain.” In this she is referring to slavery as she hopes it will end. She refers the iron chains to the harsh conditions and the actual chains they are bound to. She uses this theme to capture the imagery of what it was like during the times of slavery. In conclusion, Wheatley expresses many themes in her works such as freedom and slavery. She describes the feeling of a new world in her journey from Africa to America, and her change in mindset through the process. Wheatley captures an image of slavery and the terrible conditions people were in. She describes this with the tyranny and chains that are literally holding Wheatley bound to darkness. Wheatley explains these two themes in different ways and uses them to capture an image in the readers
