Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Through all the heav'ns what beauteous dies are spread! But the west glories in
the deepest red: What is Wheatley describing in this couplet? blood shed in war the setting of the sun her view of the afterlife the advance of the British troops
Wheatley's "A Hymn to the Evening" links the Africans with the metaphor of the sun. He illustrates the sun(God) as the still controlling force as it "gives light" that allows the human solace and assist them to make through their day which is contrary to the eastern sun which is "deepest red" (symbolic of deep red human blood of Africans) which is synonymous to the glory of West painted in deep red hue of the blood.
The poet believes in omnipotent God. She uses the sum as a symbol of both life and death and infers that "the sun is setting" that implies the death which brings darkness and grief. Yet she suggests that, it brings the warmth of eternity and represents the death of a preacher and moves towards African Spirituality and restores the setting sun to 'shining light'.
