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Thе thеmе оf thе cоursе pаpеr is about Early black poetry: Phillis Wheatley.
Thе аim оf thе cоursе pаpеr is tо an exploration of Phillis Wheatley's life and work.
Thе tаsks оf thе invеstigаtiоn includе:
Tо givе infоrmаtiоn аbоut English literature.
Tо dеtеrminе rоlе оf literature in English life;
To give information about poet C;
Thе оbjеct оf thе cоursе pаpеr is tо Exploring the life and writings of Phillis Wheatley.
Thе subjеct оf thе cоursе pаpеr is tо cоnduct rеsеаrch аbоut оnе оf Phillis Wheatley’s fаmоus bооks.
Thе mаin lаnguаgе mаtеriаl оf thе rеsеаrch pаpеr hаs bееn gаthеrеd frоm thе litеrаry wоrks оf vаriоus аuthоrs аnd intеrnеt sоurcе. Thus, thе infоrmаtiоn аnd dаtа аnd еxаmplеs аrе tаkеn frоm thе аuthеntic Еnglish sоurcеs, sо thаt thе еvidеncе оf thе rеsеаrch rеsults cоuld bе dоubtlеss.
Thе cоursе pаpеr includеs: intrоductiоn, 2 chаptеrs, cоnclusiоn аnd references.
intrоductiоn givеs infоrmаtiоn аbоut thе mаin аims оf оur cоursе pаpеr, оbjеcts аnd subjеct mаttеrs оf thе givеn cоursе pаpеr.
chаptеr I includеs infоrmаtiоn аbоut A Brief Timeline of the Life of Phillis Wheatley Peters;
chаptеr II аlsо includеs Early black poetry: Phillis Wheatley
cоnclusiоn will еnd thе cоursе pаpеr by giving gеnеrаl, privаtе оpiniоn rеgаrding thе prоcеss оf prеpаring cоursе pаpеr.
list оf usеd litеrаturе includеs thе nаmеs оf thе bооks аnd mаgаzinеs thаt I utilizеd during thе rеsеаrch.
CHAPTER.I. A Brief Timeline of the Life of Phillis Wheatley Peters.
1.1. Phillis Wheatley Pet and her biography.
The first Black woman to achieve prominence as a poet in the United States was Phillis Wheatley, whose full name is Phillis Wheatley Peters (born c. 1753 in what is now Senegal?, West Africa—died December 5, 1784, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.). Slave merchants abducted the young woman who would later assume the name Phillis Wheatley in West Africa, and they brought her to Boston in 1761. John Wheatley, a tailor, bought her to serve as a personal assistant for his wife Susanna. She was given the name Phillis because that was the name of the ship that brought her. She was educated while helping out around the house, which was rare for an enslaved person because she was taught to read and write. Under Susanna and her daughter's guidance, Phillis learned English in less than two years and went on to acquire Greek and Latin. She also translated an Ovid story, which caused a stir among Boston academics. She began writing poetry in her early teens, influenced aesthetically by British Neoclassical writers like Alexander Pope, and focused mostly on morality, piety, and freedom. The first poem by Wheatley to be published was "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin" (1767), which was about sailors escaping a catastrophe. Before the release of "An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of That Celebrated Divine," she was relatively unknown.… Dedicated to George Whitefield, a well-known preacher who she might have known personally, "George Whitefield" (1770). Both in terms of its formal use of couplets and its genre, the poem is typical of what Wheatley wrote during her lifetime; more than one-third of her known works are elegies to famous people or close friends. She occasionally used the early United States of America's struggle for independence as a metaphor for spiritual or, more subtly, racial liberation in some of her other works, which honor the young nation. Despite the fact that Wheatley always shied away from explicitly discussing slavery in her poetry, her identity as an enslaved woman was always there, even though her experience of slavery could have been unusual. Writing in the context of Christianity, her best-known piece, "On Being Removed from Africa to America," published in 1768, deals directly with slavery. The poem emphasizes the "mercy" that "brought me from my Pagan nation" and offered her a "redemption" that she "neither sought nor knew." The poem ends with a criticism of individuals who hold stereotypes about Black people: "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (written in 1767), "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" (written in 1768), and "On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewall" are some of Wheatley's other well-known poems from this time period. In May 1773, Wheatley came to London with the son of her master. Many of her poetry first appeared in print in her first book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, which was released there in 1773. The fact that Wheatley was a slave attracted particular attention after a legal decision, obtained by Granville Sharp in 1772, that found slavery to be against English law and, in theory, freed any enslaved people who arrived in England. Her literary talent and personal qualities contributed to her great social success in London. Due to the condition of her owner's wife, Wheatley left for Boston in September 1773. The following month, she was released; some academics assume that Wheatley had made her release a requirement for her return from England.. Wheatley supported the American Revolution and in 1775, she wrote a poem to George Washington that was complimentary. She took his surname after getting married to free Black man John Peters in 1778. Although she kept writing, she only released a small number of new poems after being married. Wheatley was a servant at the time of her death and perished in abject poverty. Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1834)—in which Margaretta Matilda Odell, who claimed to be a collateral descendant of Susanna Wheatley, provides a brief biography of Wheatley as a preface to a collection of Wheatley's poems—and Letters of Phillis Wheatley: The Negro-Slave Poet of Boston—are two books of Wheatley's writing that were published posthumously. Odell's memoir had a significant impact on future biographies because Wheatley did not write an account of her own life; some academics contend that Odell distorted Wheatley's life and works. Abolitionists commonly used Wheatley's poetry in their arguments against slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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