Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." "On Being Brought from Africa to America" is a piece from the celebrated African poetess Phillis Wheatley. ... /Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,/May be refin"d, and joined th" angelic train (lines 5-8). ... Robert Hayden was one of the best twentieth century poets and was the first black poet to be chosen as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress a position commonly referred to as the American equivalent of the Bri...

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Before Bierce wrote this short story, he was first lieutenant during the American Civil War. ... In comparison to "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe uses unrealistic description of setting to emphasize his point "With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, went envying her and me- [2]" Bierce's literary work of realism shows that death is inevitable, but what separates life from death? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate