Read the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening". "Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain" Wheatley uses the word forsook to express the idea that the sun is

“Forsook” means left or departed from. Since the sun has left the eastern sky and the poem refers to evening, Wheatley is describing the sun setting, not rising or growing larger.

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