Who is Wheatley?
Wheatley was the research scientists’ solution to slow down GLaDOS’s enormous intelligence.Wheatley was an “intelligence dampening core”, in that he constantly generated a stream of non-sense and ridiculous thoughts into GLaDOS’s brain. This slowed her down to enough of an extent to stop her from flooding everything with a deadly neurotoxin.He later found Chell in the pods, woke her up, took over GLaDOS’s place, pushed the place to ruins, and eventually …. Well met an interesting fate.
Question about Phillis Wheatley work?
"Most of Phillis Wheatley's poems reflect her religious and classical New England upbringing. Writing in heroic couplets, many of her poems consist of elegies while others stress the theme of Christian salvation." Although racial equality is not a theme to be found in Phillis Wheatley's poetry, one allusion of injustice appears in one of her poems which appears below: [poem is "On Being Brought From Africa To America"] "Wheatley's poetic themes are religious, and her style, like that of Philip Freneau, is neoclassical. Among her best-known poems are "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works," a poem of praise and encouragement for another talented black, and a short poem ["On Being Brought From Africa to America"] showing her strong religious sensitivity filtered through her experience of Christian conversion."
How to dress up as Phillis Wheatley for a project?
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Where did Phillis Wheatley go to school?
Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her and treated her as a family member. Rescued from an otherwise hopeless situation by the sympathies of the Wheatley family, Phillis learned English with remarkable speed, and, although she never attended a formal school, she also learned Greek and Latin.
Okay need help with this poem by Phillis wheatley.?
You should probably start by looking up William, Earl Of Dartmouth. Find out why he warrants having the poem written. Now the other thing you need to understand about poetry is that it is an oral art form. This means that YOU need to read it aloud. And it would be great if you could find another student (or someone else) who will read it aloud too. You need to hear the poem. When you read a poem aloud, you assign a voice to the poem, and you learn to interpret the poem because you have to make some instinctual choices about reading it aloud. Poems come to life when you read them aloud. They also unlock themselves. It may take a couple of times for you to get the voice down, don't be discouraged, you now know something most of your classmates don't about how to read and comprehend poems. Do well.
What does "On Virtue" means by Phillis Wheatley?
Phillis Wheatley in her poem is trying to understand what Virtue is.----- O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee.--(She's striving to understand Virtue.) Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach.-(For fools, wisdom is something higher than they know and they cant reach that level.) I cease to wonder, and no more attempt Thine height t' explore, or fathom thy profound. But, O my soul, sink not into despair,-(She is trying not to be sad because she is going to stop wondering about Virtue since she doesnt understand it) Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand Would now embrace thee, hovers o'er thine head.-(Virtue wont come to her, she finds it unattainable but she knows it there, probably right above her head, out of reach) Fain would the heav'n-born soul with her converse, Then seek, then court her for her promis'd bliss. Auspicious queen, thine heav'nly pinions spread, And lead celestial Chastity along; Lo! now her sacred retinue descends, Array'd in glory from the orbs above. Attend me, Virtue, thro' my youthful years! O leave me not to the false joys of time! But guide my steps to endless life and bliss.-(She wants to recieve Virtue because she thinks its wonderful and not to have Virtue is to fail so she really wants to obtain Virtue. Virtue will make her happy. To her Virtue is purity and good.) Greatness, or Goodness, say what I shall call thee, To give me an higher appellation still, Teach me a better strain, a nobler lay, O thou, enthron'd with Cherubs in the realms of day. -(Still has the idea that if she has Virtue, she'll be happy and be worthy. Without it, she will find herself a fool or something she couldnt attain.) -----Her life was clearly defined for her and her ideal all but laid before her. In her famous poem, "On Virtue," Whealtey begins with the lines, "O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee." She goes on to claim virtue, for her, is ambiguous - unattainable, yet ever present. As with her other poetry, Wheatley alludes to Christianity as an outlet for obtaining virtue. For Wheatley, virtue was purity and goodness, while the loss of virtue was to fail a higher power.------
What was Henry Gates's conclusions about Phillis Wheatley?
Not an expert in north american history, but this lecture can be very useful: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. LectureLong story short, there is no shadow of a doubt for Gates that Phillis was the first african-american poet and writer, and that much of the criticism of their contemporary, including her trial, was strongly based in racism rather than any other cultural prejudice.Hope it makes the deal, I am medievalist, not such informed about many things after the fall of Constantinople. ;)
Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley. Poetry help?
Thanks for your homework question. Anne Bradstreet was a wealthy white woman., the daughter of one governor and the wife of the next governor of Massachusetts. She was pampered in her life and station, and lived to the age of 60, She was the first published poet in America. She had 8 children who lived, a sign of wealth in those days, and many famous descendants, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice David Souter. Anne Bradstreet was a classic religious poet, and also a very modern poet with astute imagist poetry of her daily life and the activities around her. John Berryman's "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" is a great testimony to her poetic skills. Phillis Wheatley was the first published Black Woman Poet in America. She was enslaved at the age of 7, captured in Senegal, and sold in Boston as a slave to Mrs. John Wheatley, her Master. She was allowed her to learn reading and writing, latin and greek, and classical poetry and was not forced to work as her poetry became known. She met George Washington, and read poetry in London. She was sponsored by a group of wealthy white women in Boston. She was emancipated in 1775 upon the death of her Master, Mrs. Wheatley. The group of women then abandoned her, and she married a black grocer. She had 2 children who died very young, and she herself died at age 31, from a combination of childbirth and starvation. Her last child died 3 hours after she did. She wrote classical poetry with many christian allusions and Pilgrim Motifs, subjects suitable for the Master and owner class. It is notable that most of her poems were lost, but that she still lives as a literate and wonderful poet of her times. Both of these women are worth reading and contemplating, and my heart often wonders what greatness we would have gotten had Phillis Wheatley been free.