Research Paper On Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was an inspiration to many, but especially girls. She gave them hope to become something more than what they were told to be by everybody else. She became the first female poet, even though many people were opposed to the idea of a woman doing what a man would do. Though this occurred in the 1600s, the same idea has been passed down till today. Women have gone through many situations where they have tried to work alongside men, but were not treated fairly. Although this situation has gotten more awareness throughout the years, it is still not to the point where women are treated as equals to men. Anne Bradstreet has used her writings to give a little more light to how she got to be a poet, despite the amount backlash that she
Once this occurred, more and more women wanted to work outside of their homes and out into the real world. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, The Prologue, there is attention given to the fact that males have been known to be superior to women in work environments and how this way of thinking has been translated throughout the years.
Though there was a certain “look” many Victorian women were supposed to look like, Anne Bradstreet was not one of those women. She had her own look and her own way of doing things, “she was far from being the humble bonnet-wearer that the Victorians wanted her to be. Bradstreet was deeply ambitious,” which then led her to become the first women poet of her time (Gordon). The only thing she was worried about, was not being able to be judged on how she wrote, rather than who wrote it. Though she did not want to be famous, she still wanted to as good as the other poets, as said in the Common-Place, “her concern about her stature as a poet and her anxiety that as a woman she would not be allowed to take her place in the pantheon of great English poets… she was so averse to fame that she did not want her poetry published… She went without sleep to write, he declares,