To My Dear Children Analysis

The concerns of the colonial period portrayed through the works of the different writers deal with their religion and their health. In To My Dear Children, Anne Bradstreet writes about both of these issues for her children to read about when she is dead (452). She mentions her relationship with God, not only telling her children about her beliefs with in Christianity, but also her questions (Bradstreet 453-455). Bradstreet wanted her children to be able to take from her experiences and benefit from them to better their own lives. She wrote this piece knowing she was ill, she ends by telling her children she was sick and weak (Bradstreet 455). By her ending, I think she knew her time on earth was coming to an end.

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