Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley are some of the most known poets around the world. But back in the 1600’s they weren’t considered a poet, let alone a contributor to society. But both of these women became a powerful threat to the men once they both became educated and had an interest in poetry. Bradstreet was a white Puritan who related greek beliefs to her lifestyle and human society as a whole. Wheatley was an African American poet who was a slave, but she wasn’t like the others, she was…

woman’s status in society during colonial times was mostly frowned upon as well as unmentioned. There are different point of views based on a few select texts written during the colonial times containing writings by Anne Bradstreet, John Woodbridge and Mary Rowlandson. Anne Bradstreet, poet and mother of eight children during colonial times expressed her feelings on the behavior towards women in her writings about mundane concepts, but still mentioned her Puritan perspective in her writings.…

For Anne Bradstreet’s poems she writes on how God is present in nature and that through presenting her writings through the form of meditation that the trees, land, and the many small these we see and hear are proof that god is there. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem contemplations she shows the method of meditation in her writings, like for the first part which is the composition…

The poem, “The Author to Her Book,” written by Anne Bradstreet, focuses on the feelings of the author about an event that happened to her. The event explained in the poem is the experience that Bradstreet went through when her friends published her work without her permission and put it into the eyes of other people, when she didn’t even think that it was good enough for her own. She describes this book as the “ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,” in the poem and this description basically…

Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet’s letter “To My Dear Children,” feature the language of typology in situating their own spiritual…

had the opportunity to write. Hence, Anne Bradstreet became a symbolic figure of female writing as she became the first published female poet in the New World. Her writing served as a window to observe the newly discovered land. Although she writes about and consistently emphasizes her devotion to God that the conventional Puritan beliefs promote, Bradstreet implicitly shows a priority for world pleasures. Through her diction, tone, and literary devices, Bradstreet shows an unquenchable desire…

SAAD ALDAKHEEL 10/19/2017 American literature How Anne Bradstreet confronts puritan view of gender Anna Bradstreet grow up in a health family. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley who is the manager of country estate of the puritan Earl of Lincoln. Anna Bradstreet got married at the age of 16 to the young Simon Bradstreet who was working with Anna father. Anna Bradstreet never went to school but her father always taught her and gave her an education. It that time many woman didn’t have an…

In each of Anne Bradstreet’s poems her style has changed and contoured to fit the theme of the specific poem. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” Bradstreet seamlessly describes the love she has for her husband using a variety of literary devices such as metaphors. Using metaphors helps Bradstreet clearly demonstrate the point she is trying to make while writing it in a creative way. The strongest metaphor in this poem is, “My love is such that Rivers cannot quench” this line gives the reader a…

A poem written by Anne Bradstreet “to my dear and loving husband ” written to her husband when he was away is used to show how she loves her husband more than anything in the world . As a puritan herself she should love god more than she loves her husband and family. But there are various instances throughout her poems that she doesn’t live this beliefs to the fullest degree. In the poems we have read as a class we can see that she has a priority of love to her husband but nonetheless she loves…

rights and the discrimination against women have existed since the beginning of times. Anne Bradstreet, a poet of many love poems, is the author of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and the poem “Before the Birth of One of her Children”. Bradstreet started writing in the 1630s and held a significant viewpoint because of her background and life as a Puritan. A follower of the strict Puritan religion, Ann Bradstreet depicts viewpoints and what it’s meant to be a woman in her writings. This paper…