Problem: Respond to one of the following prompts and use textual evidence to support your analysis. Be sure to title your thread in a way that indicates which prompt you are answering. As the discussion progresses, try to address questions that others before you have not addressed. Literary and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. has argued that Phillis Wheatley's poetry is enormously significant in that it "launched two traditions at once-the black American literary tradition and the black woman's literary tradition." How did Wheatley's poetry influence subsequent African American poets and writers, such as nineteenth-century writers of slave narratives or the poets of the Harlem Renaissance? How does her work deal with issues of gender? How do we reconcile Gates's claims for her status as a founder with the fact that Wheatley's work was largely forgotten after her death until abolitionists republished some of her poems in the mid-nineteenth century?