Anne Bradstreet Analysis

Edward Taylor and Ann Bradstreet were both excellent writes although not fully recognized till much after their death. As expected both “Huswifery” and "To My Dear and Loving Husband" are great works of poetry and show signs of a higher education as well as elegance within the writing. There are many similarities within this poems, but at the same time they differ in their purpose.

Edward Taylor’s poem, “Huswifery” is a piece written more about letting the Lord take you as an instrument and use you as a vessel to promote the Lord’s message and do his work. Proof of this appears multiple times with phrases such as, make me, make mine, then mine, and countless more examples. He also references and refers to different womanly tools (as they …show more content…
In this poem she confesses her undying love for her husband and also how her love she feels is stronger than any other love. This is show in multiple lines such as, “If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;”, “Compare with me, ye women, if you can”, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold”, and “My love is such that rivers cannot quench”. All of these quotes along with the numerous others that can be pulled from the text show that she was not only dedicated to her lover but was head over heels in love with her husband. She does still reference the lord though as Edward Taylor did in his poem but it was done with a different purpose.

Ann Bradstreet and Edward Taylor both created masterfully written and impressive poems. These poems where close in idea yet far away from each other in production and purpose. The purpose of Edward Taylor’s poem was obviously to express how this wife wished to be used as tool of the Lord to better herself and everything she did. Where Ann Bradstreet’s poem was used to show the wife’s eternally burning love and passion toward her