In Phillip’s “Discourse on the Logic of Language” the poem focuses mainly on communication and the lack thereof. The repetition that ends up transitioning to new words really emphasizes the continuous conflict between the different cultural languages. “…not a foreign lan lan lang language languish anguish a foreign anguish.” This part of the poem really stood out to me because it shows us the lack of knowledge the slaves had by using the phrase “foreign anguish”. This was a very troublesome transition for slaves because it was not what they were ever used to. There is an evident conflict between finding balance from her culture and the new culture she is experiencing, and for all slaves for that matter. His poem relates to Frederick Douglass in the sense that they are both slaves who had a different culture imposed on them. They were both forbidden to know the lives they came from. He was an oppressed slave who felt lost because ignorance was strongly used towards the slaves. With all this being said, knowledge freed Douglass from being lost in the mindset of being a slave.