As a female in a highly patriarchal society‚ Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their appropriate sphere‚ and those who actually published their work frequently faced social censure. Compounding this social pressure‚ many women faced crushing workloads and struggled with lack of leisure for writing. Others suffered from an unequal access to education‚
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As far as she is concerned‚ her critics can’t even begin to look past the fact that she’s a woman‚ or imagine that a woman could do something other than work in the kitchen. Although the tone in the poem is often light-hearted‚ the author‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ is very critical of those who restrict women’s roles. This is because women can do much more than sew and cook. The speaker is a writer‚ an avid reader‚ and well-educated. She’s ready to go to war with those who attack her‚ but is also gracious
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Anne Bradstreet & Jonathan Edwards may believe in the same Puritan views‚ nevertheless there comes a time where they differ in what they believe‚ such as their religious beliefs. Though both Puritans‚ religious beliefs separate Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards due to the fact that Bradstreet believes that God is morally right while Edwards considers God as supreme and greater than all others. Anne Bradstreet’s writing shows that she believes in a God that is fair and loving that does things with
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Criticism on Anne Bradstreet In a criticism by James Ryan on Anne Bradstreet’s over all poetic history. At around 1639‚ Bradstreet became interested in the composition of many types of poetry. There was a great variety of poems that she wrote such as elegies‚ dialogues‚ religious verse‚ and love lyrics. Many of her poems were wrote about her everyday life dealing with her family or major events that occurred. Publishing a book in the seventeenth-century in England was an amazing accomplishment
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An Interpretation: Who was Anne Bradstreet? While reading the poetry of Anne Bradstreet‚ the straightforward Puritanical figure emerges‚ as well as the loving‚ caring person she was. She was truly a faithful puritan‚ but she was also a daughter‚ wife‚ mother‚ scholar and critic. In her poetry she balances both sides. In the poem "Upon the Burning of Our House" she is definite in her belief in God‚ and shows her spiritual growth as she learns amazing‚ heartfelt lessons. This poem could
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Anne Bradstreet: "The Flesh and the Spirit" Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northampton shire‚ England. Anne along with her husband and parents emigrated to America with a Puritan group. They settled in Massachusetts. She became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. However‚ the idea of the women writer was not popular at this time. It was quite rare and uncommon thing to find a woman writing poems or essays. She was also a daughter of a Puritan
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In “Here Follow Some Verses” by Anne Bradstreet stops herself from mourning over the loss of her possessions. She does that a couple times‚ her thoughts about her losses change as well as her belief in god and how she portrays him. The reader can see Bradstreet stop her mourning or begin to cope with what had happened in lines 14-20 and again in line 37. Before line 14 it is clear that she is mourning her losses‚ especially when Bradstreet says “And to my God my heart did cry‚ To strengthen me in
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The poem “Contemplations” is said by critics to be one of Anne Bradstreet’s greatest writing accomplishments ever. Born in the 17th century‚ Bradstreet moved with her family from England to New England in search of a better way of life and to recover her Puritan values. While this transition was quite a struggle‚ she did not let it take away from her beliefs. In this poem‚ Bradstreet focuses on three main topics that are important to her spiritually: nature‚ God‚ and how they are significant to our
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have very different views on God and Christianity. Anne Bradstreet from the 1600’s has a humble understanding of God‚ while Johnathon Edwards‚ 1700’s‚ has a way to instill fear into his audience and getting them to convert to christianity. Both have two different ways of spreading the word of God. They pull emotions from the reader during and after they read. Bradstreet and Edwards both have very conflicting views on the Christian religion. Bradstreet is a humble servant of the Christian faith while
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conquered unknown lands. He “defeated and beheaded a succession of three Turkish officers in single combat” (Smith 58). Anne Bradstreet was a house wife that lived from 1612 to 1672 but was no less brave by showing her work when it was looked bad upon to do so by women. John Smith is a
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