In “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Publick Employment” Anne Bradstreet indulges her readers into a zodiac maze of emotions. With using such celestial metaphors the reader grasps a much more intellectual understanding of what love was in the 17th and 18th centuries. In fact, such understanding of this endearment and love may be new to those who read Bradstreet’s poems in the 21st century, because such notation has become lost to a certain degree as the centuries have prospered. Although there may be a few people in this world now who have the same soaring soul as Anne, the beauty that underlies her definition of what love means to her is remarkably unique; just as she was unique during her time being an educated writer in the 1600’s.
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Bradstreet starts off her infamous poem with the broad cognition that the sum of what she is consumes her husband as well, and that they both conjoin into one being, without any doubt about it. Although the first metaphor that Bradstreet uses does not exactly relate to any celestial reference, she exhibits her true feelings remarkably well regarding her husband as her magazine. Hence, an additional correlation to how different intellectual feelings were expressed in the 17th century in contrast to modern day society. No one of the 21st century would go on to describe a loved one as their magazine, because to those people a magazine just solely means a book full of media or material objects that can be looked at and bought. To Bradstreet, a magazine legitimately meant a structure where gunpowder or explosive material was stored. To no surprise, this term’s meaning in centuries ago is compatible to her feelings. Bradstreet introduces her celestial metaphors in the seventh line of her poem when she …show more content…
Continuing, she then refers to the Sun as her guiding light to when her husband is going to return. When the Sun begins its journey through the zodiac it starts to slowly fade away into the distance, and then we have what becomes winter. When the Sun starts to return to its starting spot, just as when Anne’s husband returns to her, the life is brought back to this place on Earth, as to Anne as well. Anne gets extremely sentimental when she states how her husband’s warmth melted away her frozen limbs, maybe even her frozen heart. Her heart was frozen in the midst of his absence, and therefore could not pump blood to the limbs which made her numb, then once this organ of love became filled with warmth the life was brought back into her. It is hard to say that ordinary people nowadays would talk to their loved ones like this. When a beloved person goes away on vacation, one does not recall their absence in their life as so detrimental and deadly, because with the explosion of new technology those separated from each other can virtually talk and even see each other’s faces across seas. There is no concrete absence of people in one’s life, and therefore humans now are becoming less sentimental to what they really have. The saying is “you don’t realize what you have until its gone”, and it
Bradstreet starts off her infamous poem with the broad cognition that the sum of what she is consumes her husband as well, and that they both conjoin into one being, without any doubt about it. Although the first metaphor that Bradstreet uses does not exactly relate to any celestial reference, she exhibits her true feelings remarkably well regarding her husband as her magazine. Hence, an additional correlation to how different intellectual feelings were expressed in the 17th century in contrast to modern day society. No one of the 21st century would go on to describe a loved one as their magazine, because to those people a magazine just solely means a book full of media or material objects that can be looked at and bought. To Bradstreet, a magazine legitimately meant a structure where gunpowder or explosive material was stored. To no surprise, this term’s meaning in centuries ago is compatible to her feelings. Bradstreet introduces her celestial metaphors in the seventh line of her poem when she …show more content…
Continuing, she then refers to the Sun as her guiding light to when her husband is going to return. When the Sun begins its journey through the zodiac it starts to slowly fade away into the distance, and then we have what becomes winter. When the Sun starts to return to its starting spot, just as when Anne’s husband returns to her, the life is brought back to this place on Earth, as to Anne as well. Anne gets extremely sentimental when she states how her husband’s warmth melted away her frozen limbs, maybe even her frozen heart. Her heart was frozen in the midst of his absence, and therefore could not pump blood to the limbs which made her numb, then once this organ of love became filled with warmth the life was brought back into her. It is hard to say that ordinary people nowadays would talk to their loved ones like this. When a beloved person goes away on vacation, one does not recall their absence in their life as so detrimental and deadly, because with the explosion of new technology those separated from each other can virtually talk and even see each other’s faces across seas. There is no concrete absence of people in one’s life, and therefore humans now are becoming less sentimental to what they really have. The saying is “you don’t realize what you have until its gone”, and it