How do the themes of religion and identity develop over the course of the poem and interact or build on one another to produce a complex account? Refer to evidence found in the poem as well as any relevant details from Wheatley's life that might help explain your analysis.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?