John Woolman. this guy seemed to vary over in his journal so i can only believe that his taste in music would have been all over the place depending where he was in life. reading his journal 2 songs popped out to me in my head Fight the Power by Public Enemy  and I'll always remember By Yolanda Adams.  I picked out Yolanda Adams because of Woolman's background, I think that this is the kinda of song that would speak to him seeing not only himself  but the others around him.  The song reminded me of his background and how he essentially, turned from his faith in his earlier years. for example when he speaks of his childhood and said "...but in a deep sense of my great folly I was humbled before him. At length that word which is as a fire and a hammer broke and dissolved my rebellious heart; my cries were put up in contrition; and in the multitude of his mercies I found inward relief, and a close engagement that if he was pleased to restore my health I might walk humbly before him." (woolman) I thought that this line from The Journal Of John Woolman way spoke the same tone and the song  with the "You showed me no matter what you would always be there be there. You showed that there is kindness in you Mercy abundantlyin you oh" (Adams ll.13-14) this lines is speaking in terms of life she she led and finding God, or religion, and knowing the word. He would be merciful and good to her, like he was with Woolman when he repaired him so to speak. They both have put forth and underlying faith for the lord that he would make things better, in both situations.

Woolman's other song I picked out was Fight the Power by Public Enemy. I derive that from his thought on slavery , for in those times he stood up against something that was norm. I picked this song because of its message thought it all good but definately has the agressiveness in its message. And that aggressiveness coincides with Woolmans passive aggressiveness that Woolman's throws out in Some Consideration of the Keeping Of Negroes, but its only an undertone. Meaning that he is saying it but not really trying to say it, but trying to get you to see it his way with his pushing behind you. I also gained this thought after reading some colleague's thoughts on Woolman "Woolman is able to argue his opinions by using a gentle tone and asking his audience for empathy. This motive for acceptance and unity is more convincing than beginning a case in which it is filled with hatred, presumptions, and stereotyping." by Kwenen Nelson. I think that is right what Nelson is saying and in the song its a cry for empathy and trying to finally be noticed and the types of injustice that still are happening even though people , like Woolman, have tried to help to put and end to it.

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Phyllis Wheatly probaly would 've listened to some other songs with more of a poetic nature or undertone, for that reason I'm going to go with Rolling in the Deep by Adele. I think the song could relate with Wheatly passion or love for writing and trying to get others to see her potential, meaning the public, and not just some few people. "See how I'll leave with every piece of you, Don't underestimate the things that I will do, There's a fire starting in my heart, Reaching a fever pitch, And it's bringing me out the dark" (Adele ll.5-9) I think that Adele's use of imagery  these lines can go along with some of Wheatlys writing . For example when in Wheatly's poem On Virtue she saids "O leave me not to the false joys of time!; But guide my steps to endless life and bliss. ; Greatness, or Goodness, say what I shall call thee, ;To give me an higher appellation still, " (ll. 17-20) the way its spoken i feel is the same as adele's lines, with much emotion and reason, it seems as though they are both speaking in terms of trying to pick themselves up from rut, so to speak. Colleague Moria Torrez said in reference to Wheatly's poem On Virtue  from the discussion on Wheatly she said  " I felt the longing of her soul to become one with virtue. She talks about how it hovers over her, seemingly to me just out of reach and how her soul that was once in heaven desires to speak to it." i think that this interreputation is a good one because it stands out to me with Adele's song, it a longing nature, wheather that longing be for virtue or revenges they are both looking for something.

The other song I picture on her ipod would be would be Imagary by Evanessece. I got this song from based off Wheatly's poem Imagination, when i read this song i can hear this playing in he backgound like its inspiration. "Measure the skies, and range the realms above. ;There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, ;Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul." (wheatly ll. 20-22) In these line Wheatly is trying to get across point with imagination, that's its something completely different when seeing it. And again using that same imagery that she uses in her writings that makes your picture what she's saying. and with Evanescence lyrics  in the song  "Let me stay; Where the wind will whisper to me;Where the raindrops, as they’re falling, tell a story" i think that speak with Wheatly writing, even though it does take a darker or more Gothic nature than Wheatly's but the way its being i said in its nature is still the same. Its a story for both of them, more than just poems, their making a point and telling you a story wheather it romaticize or Gothic feels to it.

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I think that these 2 playlist are completely different from each other. Where as Woolmans goes for equality and religious feel , wheatly's is one based more on her writing and mindset, imagination if you will. I think that there are similarities between the two writers but not many that significantly stand out. The both of them both spoke against slavery but when i did their playlist it didnt seem that big of a factor on Wheatly's writing, which could be my own misinterpretation. I believe that both of these authors had high hope for what they set out to do, that being there main trait in common, their determination. Wheatly never really stopped writing and trying to be published and Woolman kept trying to change people minds about slavery. And both of them were actually successful in in their own way. I think that these song reflect how they feel or may have felt during periods in time. But who is really to say but them what they would want for music, for all I know they could want to to listen to 2pac and Lonely Island.