The poem “Verses Upon Our Burning House” by Anne Bradstreet expresses Puritan values, which were piety, courage, and industry, because in the poem Anne is witnessing everything that she owns going up in flames. The items that she furnished her house with where very important to her and it shows the reader how industrialized her and her family has become. When she says “Then, coming out, behold a space, The flame consume my dwelling place.” and “That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was,…
The Humble Poets: Anne Bradstreet and William Cullen Bryant From the settling of America to its Civil War, literature changed rapidly and gave future readers an idea of the struggles throughout that time period. Poets, in particular, were excellent at capturing the emotional tone of the time and discovering new meanings around and within themselves. Anne Bradstreet—a Puritan poet that came to America with John Winthrop—and William Cullen Bryant—a Romantic poet writing in post-Revolutionary…
Although the two poems were written centuries apart, both of them share the concept of love, and the sense of being completed by the other half. The poem, “To My Dear Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet has more of an intimate tone as it was written for her husband while Elizabeth Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee” describes love in a more far reaching way. There are a lot more similarities between the two poems, but the most evident among these is that both of them share a happy and a passionate…
love for God? Poet Anne Bradstreet details the differences in values for her loved ones and her faith in God through her poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”. Being that she was a Puritan, her beliefs impacted the way she looked at and thought about many things in life; mainly relationships with her husband and God. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Anne Bradstreet writes deeply about how she feels about her husband. Anne also connects…
the hands of an angry god” we have seen the similarities and differences between two pieces from both the 1600s and 1700s. The two puritan writings are unique in the own way yet focus on the general concept of G-d and the afterlife. There is Anne Bradstreet and “Upon the burning of our house, July 10th 1666” which focus’ on her true story of how her house burned down, so she felt that it was necessary by G-d to do that so she could have a better life in the future standing by the almighty one.…
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…
The reasoning behind people assuming Bradstreet cannot be a feminist is mainly based on her poem “Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment”, where she states how much better her life is when her husband is around her and how lost she feels whenever her husband is absent from her life. What these people fail to realize is that being a feminist has little to do with having a loving relationship with your partner. Therefore, the fact that Bradstreet wanted to be with her husband does…
humankind has cherished and celebrated since the beginnings of civilization. Poetry, a beautiful art that is expressed by word rather than images, is a popular outlet for love to be expressed. The poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” written by Anne Bradstreet and Henry Constable’s “My Lady’s Presence Makes the Roses Red” are two examples of love poems that express great joy and celebrate the beauty and simplicity that love can bring, in addition to telling of the author’s loves and how…
she was also successful in her poetic career. Few in the colonies of New England had time to compose poetry, especially women with eight children. In fact, women did not write and published poetry in the sixteenth or the seventeenth century. But Bradstreet was so prevailed in her art that she is credited with the first published book of poetry from the New World: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in New England. Bradstreet’s fortunes took a turn for the worse in later life. While she had success…
After reading the creation myths of both the Inuits and the Mayans and also reading elegant yet simple Puritan poetry in the works “Huswifery” by Edward Taylor and “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet. I’ve discovered many differences of the two types of texts. The creation myths featured somewhat mythical creatures and vivid storytelling while the Puritan poets stuck to a more plain writing style by eliminating any words that would cause imagery as to abide by the basic lifestyle…