"On Being Brought from Africa to America" is my favorite poem by Phillis Wheatley. This poem was the most interesting to me because it is so short, but yet very powerful. With the poem only consisting of eight lines, it has a meaningful message behind it. In my view, I think the poem's message is about religion as well as racism. The religious aspect of the message is her coming to America and learning about God, something that she did not know existed back when she was in Africa. For example, "Twas mercy brought me from my 'Pagan' land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That there's a God, that there's a 'Saviour' too./ Once I redemption neither sought nor knew" (Lines 1-4). Before Wheatley came to America she did not know that a God
