# IX explained — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

> Chapter companion for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley.

## What happens

A brief poetic description of London shrouded in misty vapors that obscure the dawn's colors and beauty.

## Character check-ins

### Aurora

The dawn goddess whose colors are clouded by London's mist.

## Key lines

> To mark the vale where London lies With misty vapours crown’d, Which cloud Aurora’s thousand dyes, And veil her charms around,

To indicate the valley where London is located, covered with misty vapors that obscure the many colors of dawn and hide her beauty.

_The poet uses classical allusion to Aurora to describe London's foggy atmosphere._

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