Anne Bradstreet Before The Birth Of Her Children Analysis

American women didn’t always have equal rights and the discrimination against women have existed since the beginning of times. Anne Bradstreet, a poet of many love poems, is the author of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and the poem “Before the Birth of One of her Children”. Bradstreet started writing in the 1630s and held a significant viewpoint because of her background and life as a Puritan. A follower of the strict Puritan religion, Ann Bradstreet depicts viewpoints and what it’s meant to be a woman in her writings. This paper explores the idea of women from the extreme religion, Puritan. To begin with, Puritan is a popular religion in the 18th and 19th century society. The religion originated in Protestant England and then was introduced to America when the Puritans fleeted England in search of a better and richer society. The purpose of the religion is to give an explanation on the world and things in it and to answer questions they had. Although different opinions on things, the Puritans main …show more content…
This poem signifies how a new life begins in the world. The poem is about the possibility of Bradstreet’s death from giving birth. Again, she is speaking to her husband in the poem and sets a tone of somberness and a sense of sadness. The poem begins with “All things within this fading world hath end, adversity doth still our joys attend” (Bendroth, 2016). As the opening line, the readers can guess that the poem will be about death but something good will come out of it. Bradstreet goes on to write about how her love for her husband will remain after she dies and wishes the best for him. She says her farewells to him and gives her apologies for her faults as a wife and an individual. She asks her husband to care for the kids once she’s gone and honor her memory. She ends the poem with stating that the husband may or may not see the letter but if he does, to treasure her last