the most interesting ways is to critically read a piece of literature from a period in order to learn about the people of that time’s culture and values. It allows every reader to actively participate as a historian when they evaluate a text. Two of Anne Bradstreet’s poems serve as perfect examples of this type of reading for history. The poems "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet‚ Who Deceased August‚ 1665‚ Being a Year and a Half Old" and "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning
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We’ve always read or been read fairy tales once in our lives‚ and how do they always end? Yes‚ happily ever after. In Anne Sexton’s "Cinderella"‚ she shakes up the traditional fairy tale‚ by adding her own tale. She uses sarcasm to finish the tale‚ causing the reader’s expectation of a happy ending and a traditional fairy tale to disappear. In doing so‚ she depicts the difference between the fairy tale and reality world. With Sexton’s harsh words of reality‚ she breaks the dreams of the readers
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Bradstreet utilizes an iambic rhythm‚ rhyming couplets‚ inverted syntax‚ and pronounced shifts in tone to exemplify Puritan ideals at the time as well as emphasize the ongoing internal battle between her attachment to material things versus her relationship with God. Throughout the poem‚ she establishes a consistent eight syllable iambic rhythm accompanied with rhyming couplets. This well structured rhythm mirrors the similar strict lifestyle of Puritans at the time‚ whose lives were often based
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The poem‚ ¨Courage¨ by Anne Sexton‚ is telling about a person´s journey in life and their perseverance of courage. The poem leads the reader through a child’s first few steps‚ riding a bike for the first time‚ his first spanking‚ being bullied by other kids‚ adulthood‚ fighting in a war‚ witnessing a close friend’s death‚ and facing his own death. Each stanza serves as a major stage in a person’s life journey and how courage is constantly being shown through different actions and ways; even during
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Anne Fausto-Sterling’s original article contends that the absolutes of our current two gender classification system fail to recognize the intersex individual. Fausto-Sterling suggest that three additional sexes‚ Hermaphrodites‚ Male Pseudo hermaphrodites and Female pseudo hermaphrodites should accompany male and female for a total of five sexes. Acknowledging that “Some find the changes under way deeply disturbing‚ Others find them liberating”‚ Fausto-Sterling writes that turning a blind eye is not
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The Grave "The Grave‚" by Katherine Anne Porter‚ is about two young children’s lives and how their past affected them while growing up. Both Paul and Miranda are related as brother and sister.Paul was a twelve year old boy who really enjoyed hunting and gathering skeletons.Miranda was a nine year old girl who use to like shooting targets‚ and grew up as a tomboy. They used to live in Louisiana and then later on they moved to Texas. After they moved down to Texas‚ their family purchased a small farm
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Admiration of Anne Bradstreets values as compared to those of Ben Franklin and Johnathan Edwards The relationships that people have with others has a severe impact on that person’s life‚ albeit many are good‚ some‚ though‚ are bad. How we choose to form‚ maintain and use these relationships is up to us‚ just as what they mean is up to us too. I will show the relationships of some writers and how they treat others‚ as an important value to me. Three writers of our era‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Jonathan
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do. To others‚ it’s trying to make people smile‚ or make someone’s day a little bit brighter. Being generous does not mean that you have to give money‚ sometimes you just have to give time. Every person has a different definition of what it means. Anne Frank states that "No one has ever become poor by giving." Is that because being generous makes your heart feel rich? Frank A. Clark says "Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never notice." If no one ever acknowledges when
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The poem I have chosen was Sous-entendu written by Anne Stevenson which is a poem written from a women point of view‚ which show how men see women. The way we get a to see that see how men perspective women as object because they often want more then an emotional connection. The poem describes a typical womanizer. The first stanza does a good job in showing how men tend to create a relationship with some women‚ and how they see that as naïve. I like how the poet‚ counter argues that women are not
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#Puritan#firstfeminist#sarcasm#wecannotallsucceedwhenhalfofusareheldback Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan woman who could possibly be the first feminist. “The Prologue” was written to introduce her other works but she also used this opportunity to express her feelings of oppression by men and the Puritan beliefs. She uses sarcasm and a critical tone to make her points. Though many have supposed that this poem was a confession that Bradstreet felt the same way about her poetry‚ in reality it was
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