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Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Murphy examines the subversive elegy of American poet Phillis Wheatley. It is said that although most of Wheatley's elegies serve as a tribute to the deceased and a work of solace for those left behind, "To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady" emphasizes Wheatley's prowess as a writer who plays with ideas of subversion in her imagery and prosody. By viewing the poem's persona as a siren bent on urging the clergyman to death, this poem reveals Wheatley's frustration with the institution of marriage, a right she has been denied.