Classmates‚ My assigned poem for this weeks discussion was "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet. The poem is of closed form comprised of both rhythm and rhyme‚ and gives a vivid image of a woman’s bountiful and enduring love for her husband. Given the time period during which Bradstreet lived‚ and the imaginable struggles her and her family must have gone through‚ a significant other such as this would have been a Godsend. I couldn’t imagine having to go through the struggles that
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said as she looked up from her work. "I am going to finish cooking us a dinner‚ you can get started on these poems." Anne said as she handed me 3 poems. The first one I read was called‚ "The Author to Her Book". The title immediately caught my eye and I spent a minute or so trying to decipher the meaning of it. I settled on two ideas‚ it either meant that the "Author" was God leading her life‚ or it could have been that the "Author" was herself. I assumed that "Her Book" meant her own life
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Barrett 4th November 3‚ 2013 Compare Contrast Essay In modern times‚ poetry is often considered a complicated and confusing art‚ incapable of being fathomed by an average person. Poetry is written in the vernacular which typically becomes outdated and therefore unfamiliar. With regards to Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery”‚ this is not the case. Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor use two different writing styles to compare a similar topic in drastically
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To my dear and loving husband Anne Bradstreet – Context Anne Bradstreet was born in September 16th‚ 1612 in Northampton‚ England. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley‚ a steward of the Earl of Lincoln‚ and Dorothy Yorke. Due to her families position she grew up in cultured circumstances and was a well-educated woman for her time‚ being tutored in history‚ several languages and literature. At the age of sixteen she married Simon. Both Anne’s father and husband were later to serve as governors
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Anne Bradstreet’s poem‚ "To My Dear and Loving Husband‚" is a short poem in which she shows her undying love and tenderness toward her husband. The poem has five stanzas‚ each stanza was ryhming couplets in the entire poem which are AABBCCDD and EEFF‚ the end of each word in each line are sharing the same rhythm and tone that gives the poem an arranged ‚organized ‚and musical structure. Also. it has twelve lines‚ the beginning word of the fifth line which is “I” we can infer that the poem is written
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Love is the most powerful force in the world‚ even in death the power of love continues to be felt making the lover immortal. This is the idea expressed in Anne Bradstreet’s ode “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. The Love between two people is so powerful that it combines them and makes the as one. This is proven when Bradstreet states “If ever two were one … Surely we” (1)‚ This states that connection between two people is so powerful that it combines them physically‚ mentally and spiritually thus
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the intent of following puritanism’s purpose of writing to glorify God‚ she did incorporate Puritanism and her belief in God in her poem‚“To My Dear and Loving Husband”‚ making it possible to view the piece as a religious piece‚ that fits into the ideas of
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In Taylor’s poem Huswifery and Bradstreet’s epistle To My Dear and Loving Husband both use metaphors and rhyme scheme to discuss the role of servitude of a wife. Taylor uses both metaphors and rhyme scheme to emphasize his point that just as a wife works to serve her husband‚ god will help those who desire to exalt him. Taylor throughout his poem uses the metaphor of a loom to compare himself to the spinning wheel to demand to God that Taylor be used‚ much like a man would demand his wife to do
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General information The way Australians talk is peppered with many words that are unique to our version of English. The history of Australian English starts with kangaroo (1770) and Captain James Cook’s glossary of local words used in negotiations with the Endeavour River tribes. The language was pidgin. Australian English- is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia. Although English has no official status in the Constitution‚ Australian English is Australia
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personal works to herself. The poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a beautifully written poem by a woman who is completely and utterly in love with her husband. This poem is written in a first-person narrative of a wife speaking directly to her husband. This poem can reflect Anne and Simon’s actual relationship with each other. Many of Anne’s works and poems were personal and revolved around her own life. I believe this poem was truly written to her husband Simon. The entire poem elaborates‚ in
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