Alexia Blair English August 29‚ 2013 Reading Response Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” looks at the author’s humiliation at having her work published and exposed to the critical public. Bradstreet uses a child as a metaphor for her book. This explains when she is embarrassed when it is snatched from her and reflects on her as the mother. Regardless of the author’s attachment to her “child‚” she is still ashamed to send it out the door. Almost all the lines of the poem rhyme‚ this
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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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to express their ideas in this time period. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan wife who wanted people to know about her incredible connection with the love of her life. While this poem is a simple love story‚ the language she uses make it much more deep. The unique rhyme scheme talks about her life with her love and symbolizing him as something much more valuable than gold. She exclaims through figures of speech to describe her exceptional relationship with her husband using many different characteristics
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Sheryl Paul defines love‚ “Love is action. Love is tolerance… Love is giving. Love is receiving… Love is recognizing that it is not your partner’s job to make you feel alive‚ fulfilled‚ or complete.” Sheryl Paul uses verbs to describe love and has her own perception of what love is and should be that people can agree or disagree with. While Paul believes love is tolerance and reciprocation‚ Sheri and Bob Stritof describe love differently. They say‚ “love is when the chemicals in your brain kick in
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Anne Bradstreet: American Poet Anne Bradstreet is seen as a true poetic writer for the seventeenth century. She exhibits a strong Puritan voice and is one of the first notable poets to write English verse in the American colonies. Bradstreet’s work symbolizes both her Puritan and feminine ideals and appeals to a wide audience of readers. American Puritan culture was basically unstable‚ with various inchoate formations of social‚ political‚ and religious powers competing publicly. Her thoughts
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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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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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religion which adhered to religion‚ moral and social order. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan that wrote poetry reflecting on what she had experienced as a woman‚ even though during this era women should not challenge societal norms. She wrote many poems that contained subliminal content within them. One poem that Bradstreet wrote‚ “In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess‚ Queen Elizabeth” was to the late Queen Elizabeth. She expresses her respect and gratitude to the Queen for being an extraordinary
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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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back 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 a slap in the face to the men of the time as she claimed her right to
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