individuals writings related to me in one way, or another, on a personal level. Initially what stuck out from start was that Bradstreet and Wheatley were both women. As a woman myself, I able to relate to another woman much easier than I can a man, this was so in reading each of their works. In Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and loving husband", the poet speaks about her husband, praising their unity and saying, “that there is no man in the world whose wife loves him more.” In my life I can only compare
Wheatley as a slave at the age of 8. Phillis was the named after the ship that brought her over to America as her last name is adopted from the family. The Wheatley’s educated Phillis, teaching her English, Theology, Greek, Latin, and soon she began writing poetry. Her first published poem was at the age of 12. Phillis Wheatley life was abnormal, for during her time, African Americans were discouraged and intimidated from learning how to read and write. Nonetheless as a privileged slave, the challenges