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    Anne Bradstreet was one of the few extraordinary females who earned a place with the male writers of the seventeenth century. Bradstreet’s upbringing had a vast amount to do with the way she was educated. Her father gave her the advantage of good tutoring. Having open access to a library full of books quickly made reading one of her favorite past times and she took an interest in the poets of the past. This interest of Bradstreet’s helped her write touching poetry that is still read today. Anne Bradstreet’s

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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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    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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    Anne Bradstreet Beliefs

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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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    Anne Bradstreet Tone

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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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    "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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    Fire By Anne Bradstreet

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    Bradstreet was very upset and angry at the beginning of the story when all of her stuff burnt in the flames because she lost everything. Nothing came out of the fire the same‚ not even herself. She was devastated about this because she watched all the stuff she worked for‚ all the stuff she bought‚ all the gifts she was given‚ all of it went down in flames. She started blaming people‚ one of those people were god. She was asking god‚ why did this have to happen to me. I didn’t do anything wrong to

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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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    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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