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Question: What's the message in this poem!?
By Phillis Wheatley:

Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song,
Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung,
Whence flow these wishes for the common good,
By feeling hearts alone best understood,--
I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate
Was snatched from Afric's fancied happy seat:
What pangs excruciating must molest,
What sorrows labour in my parent's breast!
Steeled was that soul, and by no misery moved,
That from a father seized his babe beloved:
Such, such my case!. And can I then but pray
Others may never feel tyrannic sway!?

Whats the message in this poem!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Phillis Wheatly was a slave and I think she speaks of that here when she eludes to being snatched from Africa!. She was a strong supporter of independence during the revolutionary war who was granted an appearance with George Washington!.

I believe she is catching the vision that "all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!." There is a call to freedom here and a recognition that the infringement of that freedom carries consequences so dire that she prays no other families may have to feel!.

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that you have survived being molested by your father!.If this is true please seek help these scars though hidden will not heal without help!.They can and will pop up to haunt your life if not addressed!.Find some one you can trust and tell them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com