We whose names are under-written, do assure the world, that the poems specified in the following page, were (as we verily believe) written by phillis, a young negro girl, who was but a few years since, brought an uncultivated (meaning not educated] barbarian from africa, and has ever since been, and now is, under the disadvantage of serving as a slave in a family in this town. she has been examined by some of the best judges, and is thought qualified to write them." (john wheatley, to the publick) the perspective (or point of view) of this passage can best be described as? first person second person third person

third person

Explanation:

third person perspective usually uses he, she or it

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,