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To My Dear And Loving Husband By Anne Bradstreet
The central theme of the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet is a poem about how much a wife loves her husband. The tone reflects that she loves her husband intently and the figurative language that compares their love as being greater than any amount of gold or riches (Bradstreet, 2017). The poem shows that a wife loves her husband more than life itself.
The style of the poem is simple and uses rhymes. The title lets us know what the poem is going to be about. Every line explains how deep her love is for her husband and is easy to understand. This connects to the theme by making short statements that all state she deeply loves her husband more than anything (Bradstreet, 2017).
The poem uses characterization to show
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