In this poem, Anne Bradstreet says that she values the love of her husband more than gold. This is evident in line five in which she writes, "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold.".
2. The last two lines of the poems read, "Then while we live, in love let's so persevere / That when we live no more, we may live ever." This means that while she and her husband live, their love must persevere so when they die, they can live together forever.
3. Bradstreet expresses how much she loves her husband by using the phrases "Thy love is such I can no way repay" and "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold." Also she expresses the emotion of happiness when she writes, "If ever wife was happy in a man / Compare with me, ye woman, if you can.".
4. Often newlyweds feel the same way about their partner as Anne Bradstreet feels about hers. It seems as if nothing matters to her except for the love she and her husband feel for each other. .
"Upon the Burning of Our House".
Pg. 140.
1. Bradstreet doesn't seem very upset but rather calm for just having her house burn to the ground. She says, "It was His own, it was not mine / Far be it that I should repine." This means that God gave her the house and all of the belongings. He blessed them with it, and so it would not be right to complain about him taking it back again. .
2. At the end of the poem, Anne Bradstreet writes, "There's wealth enough, I need no more / Farewell, my pelf, farewell my store / The world no longer let me love / My hope and treasure lies above." This quote describes Anne's views on material goods and wealth. She says that her belongings here on earth are not important to her, but that her real treasure lies in heaven.
3. In the beginning of the poem, Bradstreet expresses fear in the lines "And piteous shrieks of dreadful voices / That fearful sound of "Fire!" and "Fire!"" Then, Ann expresses sorrow in "And to my God my heart did cry / To strengthen me in my distress.
Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England, in 1612. ... Anne Bradstreet's strong voice about her religious beliefs comes through in various poems. ... Anne Bradstreet's statements throughout her poems show that she was a strong believer in God. ... Anne Bradstreet reveals numerous personality traits throughout her poems. Religious and compassionate are just two of the various traits. ...
Unlike Anne Bradstreet's poetry, Edward Taylor's poems remained for the most part unpublished during his lifetime. ... Anne Dudley Bradstreet was America's first poet at a woman. ... Anne Dudley Bradstreet was sixteen years old when she married her husband Simon Bradstreet and about two years later her family sailed to America to settle in the Massachusetts Bay colony. Anne Bradstreet's poetry was very private and personal. ... Anne's poems showed complete devotion to her husband especially when her husband would leave for business. ...
This woman was Anne Bradstreet. Anne Bradstreet was a unique character who wrote astonishing poems such as The Tenth Muse; and she influenced many Americans, especially women. ... Many factors influenced why Bradstreet wrote poems and what she wrote about. ... " (Wendy, Martin Poems & Poets- Anne Bradstreet on The Tenth Muse poetry foundation.org) This shows she was a fair weather Puritan. ... " (Wendy, Martin Poems & Poets- Anne Bradstreet on The Tenth Muse poetry foundation.org). ...
Anne Bradstreet was one of the few extraordinary females who earned a place with the male writers of the seventeenth century. ... Anne Bradstreet uses "The Prologue" to talk about the way society viewed women in the public eye. ... Bradstreet is very critical about her works and it shows in her poems. ... Bradstreet's ability to be too hard on her writings only led to her writing fantastic poems. ... "The Prologue" being one of her best poems, she addressed the two most outstanding issues on the minds of the people during that time period, the role of women in society and the way she vi...
Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet mirrors the elements of puritanism to allow religious value to be put into action in her three famous works. ... Anne Dudley Bradstreet was born in 1612 into a puritan family. ... She gave birth two eight glorious children. ... All great writers have inspiration Anne Bradstreet's inspiration came from the famous writers in history; such as Shakespeare. ... In the next work of Anne Bradstreet " To my dear and loving husband" was written between 1641-1643. ...
In this paper, I want to review and examine Anne Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband." ... Bradstreet distinguishes herself in some of her poems by giving attention to human emotions rather than concentrating on religion. ... The first three lines of the poem reads "If ever two were one, then surely we. ... In conclusion, it is clear for anyone to see that Anne Bradstreet had an incredible love for her husband. ... Not until the 1960s was the work of Anne Bradstreet really and truly recognized as being as important as it is in American literature. ...
In "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House," Anne Bradstreet creates a work of art that has many similarities to the previously discussed poem. ... (Bradstreet 102) This entire poem is written to describe the horrors that vanity creates, and it is captured in these two lines. ... Anne Bradstreet mostly seems to give in to the religious beliefs she was raised upon, yet at the same time, she question them, which is depicted through the two poems analyzed here. ... Anne Bradstreet's talent was truly amazing. I have only described one rhetorical structure that Bradstreet u...
Anne Bradstreet was America's first real poet, but she is not only a poet she is an author. ... Thomas put his own affairs into the hands of Simon Bradstreet. Simon Bradstreet was the son of a "Puritan Lincolnshire minister." ... After she recovered from the smallpox and the two were married. ... Anne still became ill often but stayed strong to raise her eight children, which lead her to write this poem. ...
Anne Bradstreet was one of the English speaking first poets in North America, as her poetry has withstood the test of time. She married Simon Bradstreet, who also shared her deep Puritan beliefs. ... I believe that there are two meanings to her work, what she really means and what she wants the readers to think the meaning is. The poem, upon the burning of our House, depicts Bradstreet's devout belief in God. ... Nevertheless, I believe that Anne Bradstreet was as ambitious Woman, who deserves a lot of respect for her writings for she surpassed all opposition....
