Feminism In Anne Bradstreet's A Letter To Her Husband
Anne Bradstreet was a woman during the Puritan era that made a huge impact on women regarding love and feminism within puritanism. In her poem, “A Letter to Her Husband” Bradstreet incorporated her true feelings and addresses to readers that her love for her husband is unconditional and that the synopsis of this poem is the love that she has for her husband. “My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay, more”. To Bradstreet, her husband's love is worth more than materialistic items or anything else that society embraces as greed. She also makes a valid point within the poem to show the audience that her husband can do nothing but fulfill her emotions and her heart with love. The lines, “If two be one, as surely thou and I, How sayest thou there,
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Nature was a major part of the Puritan environment and it was shown throughout the stories and poems during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nature was a major part of life during the Puritan era because the Puritans relied on nature to provide for the people (farming and hunting were major contributions for source of food). They felt that their belief in God gave them aesthetics of untouched land that they were able to transform into a flourishing, abundant land for the people to survive on. Much of the Puritan’s stories were based on the nature within their environment, and how they interacted with nature. Bradstreet goes on to justify to readers on how much her husband means to her (My head my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,) and her "My joy, my magazine of earthly store". While the two inhabit the world, waiting to go to heaven, they represent the entirety of each other's existence. While her husband is away, she has to linger at home (another reason that Bradstreet views puritanism critically). Readers can get the sense that their household, usually a warm and welcoming place, is cold and imprisoning. The poet uses her knowledge and philosophy of astrology (not in the contemporary, time-predicting manner) to explain and contemplate the time of year for these events. During the summer, the sun was at its highest point above where she’s from, utilizing the area where
Nature was a major part of the Puritan environment and it was shown throughout the stories and poems during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nature was a major part of life during the Puritan era because the Puritans relied on nature to provide for the people (farming and hunting were major contributions for source of food). They felt that their belief in God gave them aesthetics of untouched land that they were able to transform into a flourishing, abundant land for the people to survive on. Much of the Puritan’s stories were based on the nature within their environment, and how they interacted with nature. Bradstreet goes on to justify to readers on how much her husband means to her (My head my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,) and her "My joy, my magazine of earthly store". While the two inhabit the world, waiting to go to heaven, they represent the entirety of each other's existence. While her husband is away, she has to linger at home (another reason that Bradstreet views puritanism critically). Readers can get the sense that their household, usually a warm and welcoming place, is cold and imprisoning. The poet uses her knowledge and philosophy of astrology (not in the contemporary, time-predicting manner) to explain and contemplate the time of year for these events. During the summer, the sun was at its highest point above where she’s from, utilizing the area where