How Did Anne Bradstreet Affect Her Poetry

Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as an accomplished new world poet. Anne 's work was very well known as it continues to be throughout America today. Her most well known piece of poetry was "The tenth muse " which was published in London in 1650. Anne addressed the situations that were happening in her life and put them into poetry, all though she was not able to publish them all due to the fact that she was a woman, she had an exceptional amount of work and effort that went towards these poems. During the 1600s woman 's poems were not published, or even looked at. Despite this Anne continued to write her poems based upon religion, conflicts she had as a Puritan woman, and issues that she was concerned with. This affected much of her poetry because it was not only realistic but it showed the real life dilemmas happening. The 1600s were a time for change, pilgrims from England arrived in Plymouth …show more content…
Anne was not allowed to publish her poems and had to keep them all hidden in her library.The library located in her house contained over 800 books which she enjoyed reading and got some of her poem ideas from. Woman were not even considered in the 1600s and definitely were not considered for writing poems, which was the main reason why she kept them a secret from friends and family, until her brother in law found them and took them to England with him and published them secretly. Today Anne is known as the most proment poet of the early English. Anne 's poems hit an all time high once she passed away. Her poems got published and she became the first known female write in the British- American colonies to get published. " The tenth muse" still has a positive reputation in today 's society and it has made an outstanding poem for both the new and old world. Anne has changed the way for many females showing that woman can do anything a man can