To+His+Excellency+General+Washington

• The time is October 1775, near the end of the Revolution. The time affects her writing because there is a war!

• Phillis, here, writes about the great General George Washington. General Washington is the greatest leader in the war, and then afterwards. Her purpose is to give praise to him.

• Phillis employs the same sort of rhyme scheme. "Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light," On a side note, on page 170, there is a background on Phillis and To His Excellency, she had a hard life and didn’t even have this poem published because of her status.

• The literature is reflective of the time because it is a poem about Washington and his excellency in the war.

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 * What is the significance in her writing this?
 * More specificaly, what reprecusions occured from it?