Anne Bradstreet

exceptional authors, Phillis Wheatley and Anne Bradstreet, proved to their patriarchal society that any woman, despite their race or color, can overcome their struggles in life as long as they were aligned with a belief system and stayed true to their mission on Earth. Christianity provided a means for both authors to express their creativity and emerge as published writers who were able to use religion as the driving force of their literary success. Wheatley and Bradstreet maintained respective…

America’s First Women Poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley defied the strict social norms in their days. Being a woman writer in a patriarchal society sure was a huge obstacle to overcome. Women at the time were expected to be housewives and child bearers. With the education and privileges afforded to them both Bradstreet and Wheatley, were able to write and publish works that in a time that suppressed creativity in women. This showed people at that time that neither race nor gender is a…

Bradstreet's "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House." After the burning of her house, Anne Bradstreet, a female poet, reprovingly writes about the passing of materialistic things, in order to show that all wealth on Earth will come to an end whereas the wealth in Heaven is more rich and ever-lasting. In her poem Anne Bradstreet stresses the idea of Eternal Life."Thou hast a house on high erect," The idea that in Heaven everything will come to a whole and will be much more grand. As a human she…

figure out what is wrong with Old England and what is causing them such grief. The “mother” writes, “Art ignorant indeed of these my woes,” (Bradstreet) asking if the child is just ignorant to the suffering that she is going through and warns the child that if she is too die, than the child will also die. “If I decease, dost think thou shalt survive?” (Bradstreet) The daughter goes on to try and speculate what is wrong with her mother lists possible…

American Literature three historical writers were used to signify God’s supreme power. William Bradford’s writings focused on preservation. Mary Rowlandson’s narrative describe endurance. Anne Bradstreet’s poems were based on inspiration as well as aspiration. William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, and Anne Bradstreet all faced a moment in their life when they had to rely on God to deliver them from their trials. Therefore; the ultimate theme of these authors revolves around God’s presence…

in Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear Children”, “To My Dear Loving Husband”, and “A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” For centuries, artists find a woman to be a most worthy muse. Poets proclaim her beauty, her poise and charm. Her physical presence is evident but her intellectual contributions are absent. Women with pens of their own come and go, wedging a space for themselves in a male dominated field. When the quest to start a new nation comes to fruition, Anne Bradstreet…

According to Poetry Foundation, Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612. She didn't attend school, though she was tutored by her father Bradstreet favored literature, most of her time was spent on reading. Once she was sixteen years old she married Simon Bradstreet who assisted her father, Thomas Dudley and eventually had eight children. As a young adult she wrote numerous short poems; “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment,” and “The Author to Her…

the exact way Anne Bradstreet felt when her house burned down in 1666. The 1600’s were the time of the puritans. Christians who believed that humans were sinful and would be doomed to a fiery eternity unless they were saved by God. In the puritan times Jonathan Edwards was a preacher and Anne Bradstreet was a poet. In Edwards’s and Bradstreet’s works of literature they show their religious views, use different forms of imagery and use many details in their poems and sermons. Bradstreet and…

especially in regards to America’s Puritan heritage. The foundation of Puritan culture was religion. The Puritan philosophies that stressed the choice between a life of sin or salvation. These ideas can be seen in early American literature such as that of Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to her book” and Johnathan Edwards’s “ Sinners in the among others. American literature eventually evolved into a secular art. Later movements such as Modernism and Post-structuralism references very little of the…

her article on Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Emily Warn explores the difference between the teachings of Anne Hutchinson and the writings of Anne Bradstreet. Warn argues that the difference between the two Puritan women is that Anne Bradstreet conceals her views on Puritan theology behind the façade of a love letter, ensuring she does not suffer the same banishment of Anne Hutchinson. Warn references the opening of Bradstreet’s poem to support her claim. Bradstreet writes,…