Dec 30, 2009
The four heroic couplets that constitute Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” delve deeply into the psyche of the young African American slave narrator who attempts to come to terms with her being torn from her native African soil and being forcibly relocated to colonial America. The poem’s original title, “Thoughts on being brought from Africa to America,” when written in 1768, clearly indicates that the work was intended to represent the speaker’s pondering her situation rather than serving as a mere statement, which is often...
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