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    Poetry has always been a vital part of humanity’s history. It shares a piece of the past while also showing the poet’s skills. One famous female poet of the past is Anne Bradstreet. Anne Bradstreet holds a reputation of being the first female poet acknowledged as a successful New World Poet, an admirable position. Although she wrote many reputable poems in her time, she had to endure the gender bias as a woman. Some of her beliefs were rejected since they were still new to her era. Despite the…

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    first governor of Massachusetts land in Massachusetts, with them Anne Dudley, daughter of Thomas Dudley, marrying simon Bradstreet at the age of sixteen. As an educated woman she was taught to read and write and became the first female writer in the Americas. In her literature she used imagery, pathos and irony to portray the Puritan life and ethics of their belief in god. Anne Bradstreet uses imagery to convey to image of heavens the puritans held. In bradstreet's poem of the flesh and the…

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    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…

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    One deals with a happy marriage and the other one is a daughter talking about her parent’s unhappy marriage. In the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” Bradstreet expresses the enormous love she has towards her husband Simon Bradstreet to whom she married at the young age of sixteen. “Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.” (Bradstreet 425) She describes how there is no possible way she could ever recompense the love and affection he shows her. On the other hand “I Go Back to May, 1937”…

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    Anne Bradstreet was born as Anne Dudley in Northampton, England in 1612. Her parents were Thomas Dudley, who was a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke. Anne became very well educated due to her father’s high position, which was unique because most women did not receive an education during this time period. Anne was tutored in many languages such as Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and English. She was also tutored in history and literature. When Anne was sixteen, she married…

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    to an unknown world. Anne Bradstreet, for instance, who was a puritan and was born in England and was raised there until she was 18. “She was married at the age of 16 to Simon Bradstreet,” who at the time had just “graduated from Cambridge University” and was associated with her father. She sailed with Winthrop’s fleet to the new world because Simon, Anne’s husband, had been “appointed to assist in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company.” When…

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    According to the author David Kelly’s article, which cited the Anne Bradstreet poetry of “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” First, in Kelly’s article, he states that poetry is directness of the poet’s expression of her love for her husband, this poetry is incompatible to follow the modern standards, but it is fascinating to grasp readers to read and research the purpose and reason of the poetry. Second, Kelly explains the biography of the poet who is a Puritan. According to the poet’s religion,…

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    Young suggests, Anne “reveals a struggle between her religious faith and the harsh experiences of living in colonial Massachusetts during the mid-17th century” throughout her poems (par. 1). Anne was only sixteen at the time she married her husband Simon. Nina Baym points out that Anne's husband was an associate of her fathers and that he also shared her father's Puritan beliefs (110). A couple of years after marriage, Anne, her father, and her husband sailed aboard the Arabella with the…

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    period of Feminist activity during the 19th and early twentieth century in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States, It focused on de jure inequalities, primarily on gaining women 's suffrage. According to Miriam Shiner, "Simon de Beauvoir wrote that the first woman to "take up her pen in defense of her…

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    Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…

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