Anne Bradstreet‚ one of the world’s most well known female Puritan writers‚ is known for her poems that are rich in detail and imagery‚ reflecting her passions and her faith. One of the most powerful and thought-provoking themes that she uses throughout her works is the comparison between life on earth and the afterlife‚ expressed by her thoughts and feelings that she so delicately laces in between the two ideas‚ tying the comparisons together. Bradstreet made it clear in her literary works that
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5H Ms. Sanchez Anne Bradstreet: Uncustomary and Unique A seventeenth century poetic writer‚ Anne Bradstreet is a very important figure in American Literature history. Born in 1612 in England‚ she came to America as part of a fleet of Puritan emigrants in 1630. Bradstreet is considered by many to be the first American poet. Her writing style is typical of Puritan writing in some cases‚ and in other cases it is atypical of Puritan writing. Being a Puritan woman‚ Anne Bradstreet incorporated many
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Compare and Contrast of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley Jonathan Noblitt Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley were both poets in America. Anne Bradstreet was a teen bride from England that came to America in 1630. She was born into a puritan family and accepted the faith. At sixteen she married Simon Bradstreet. They moved to America and her husband was the governor of Massachusetts. She had eight kids and lived as a housewife. She died in 1672. Phillis Wheatley was a slave from Africa and
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Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards Throughout the time‚ there has always been a debate regarding the hypothetical issue that deals with the existence of god and his role in mankind. Some believe that god has power to manipulate human fate‚ and consequences of their actions which mean if you do well‚ god will send you to heaven‚ if not to hell. Meanwhile‚ other opines that god does not decide the consequence of those actions. Whether you do well or bad‚ god will always be there with you. After
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beliefs are that God has a reason for doing everything. She believes that her house and possessions destroyed because that’s the way God intended it to be. In line 14 of the poem‚ Bradstreet writes plainly‚” I blest his name that gave and took‚ that laid my goods now in the dust. Yea‚ so it was‚ and so ‘twas just.”. Bradstreet had put all of her faith in God and‚“blessed his name”. She believes that he will take care of everything‚ and make everything okay in the end. Material things don’t matter here
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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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To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and the first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America‚ published in 1650. She was born March 20‚ 1612 in Northampton‚ Massachusetts and died September 16‚ 1672 in Andover. She was married to Simon Bradstreet. When they married‚ she was 16 and he was 25. Mrs. Bradstreet’s works are also considered to represent the
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Literary works can differ greatly even when they happen close to the same time frame. Explorer literature and Puritan literature were written close to the same time frame yet both had major differences. The people that wrote the literary works‚ why they wrote them‚ and to who they wrote them to all had an impact on how the literary work differed. Even so‚ Puritan and Explorer literature still shared similarities. At the base of the similarities and differences where the authors of the works. Two
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet Greg Saxon The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that Bradstreet was a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne Hutchinson was. Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and preached a doctrine of salvation through intuitive apprehension of grace rather than by works‚ and attacked the rigid moral and legal codes of New England Puritanism.
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"If ever two were one‚ then surely we. If ever man love by wife then thee’. By Anne Bradstreet who is one of a American Authors. over a past four century Anne have received a number of accolades from literary scholars and critics. Anne Bradstreet is one of American author and not only a author but also a poet which mean she have written some poem. She has been called one of the greatest Puritans/New world‚ first female poets in America. Some people consider her as best female poet of all time
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