...Anne Bradstreet’s poetry is considered one of the best literary achievements of the 1700s. Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are both very talented writers with Bradstreet’s poem Upon the Burning of Our House and Edwards’s Sinners in the hands of an Angry God. Both of these writers have unquestionably different, but both unique writing styles. First we will talk about their use of literary devices and then about their style and structure of writing. Lastly we will talk about their strong religious views. Both of these two writers are different in many ways, but also in some they are alike. Both authors have different styles of writing. Bradstreet fancy’s to write poems while Edwards is keen on writing more about sermons and speeches. Bradstreet...
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...I enjoyed reading your discussion regarding Anne Bradstreet and her contribution to American literature. I agree that although she may have been considered somewhat of a rebel during those times since women were primarily expected to care for the home and family. However, her necessity to adjust to a harsh colonial life required considerable tenacity, especially with experiencing the loss of her child and two grandchildren. As you also mentioned, additional hardships such as her husband’s absence due to his work, her health, and her house catching fire caused her to develop an even tougher resolve in order to survive. Although Bradstreet was often viewed as though she was focused on England, since she was educated there, she clearly reflected...
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...I enjoyed reading your discussion regarding Anne Bradstreet’s evolution as a writer, and how she acknowledges her struggle between flesh and spirit in her earlier years and develops into a more passionate and expressive writer. It seems as though has a sense of maladjustment to the New England environment and colonial life, which triggers her need to express her feelings. One important observation to consider, also, is that women were not only expected to take care of the home but not to be particularly expressive in thought or manner. Although losing children (and mothers during childbirth) was more commonplace during the 1600’s, nothing had been written from a woman’s viewpoint regarding the loss or separation prior to Bradstreet’s writings....
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...Edward Braddock was born in 1695 and came of age during QUEEN Ann’s War hearing the glories of the English arms. Though common by birth Braddock acquired a position in the Coldstream Guards as an ensign. Quick tempered and peevish Braddock developed a mild reputation as an immoral officer, due to his addiction to snuff and his partaking of prostitution in the Covent Garden. As Braddock progressed through the ranks, he developed a reputation as a noted administrator, effective disciplinarian, and honest and creative dedicated soldier. Braddock’s forty-four year career was both unremarkable and unblemished, in 1754 he earned the chance for military distinction. Major General Braddock arrived in Virginia in February of 1755 to command all British forces against the French. Braddock, though seasoned, was considered overconfident and stubborn, had no experience in the American wilderness nor did his men. Braddock, commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, William Augustus, to take Fort Duquesne from the French in the Ohio Valley. Braddock spent the next few months preparing for war by gathering supplies and recruiting colonial troops, including George Washington. Due to Braddock’s lack of imagination and refusal to stray from his orders, what should have taken weeks took months. Braddock’s attitude towards potential Native American allies, colonial volunteers, and colonial governors also hindered his preparations. It was Braddock’s ignorance of the American wilderness and his contempt...
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...Bradstreet's attitude toward her stuff being burnt in a fire Bradstreet was sad at first because her house burnt down and all of her stuff was burnt and ruined in the fire. Then Bradstreet was ok with her house and stuff being burnt down because of her faith in her religion the reason why she was ok with all of her stuff being burnt down was because a religion isn't just something you believe in it's a lifestyle that you have to be committed to. The reason why Bradstreet was sad at first when all of her stuff bursted into flames is because it is her valuables some stuff can be replaced but some can not be replaced like a photo of a loved one who passed or something that was passed through generations. Or things that can be replaced like a...
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...ANALYSIS “Before the Birth of Her Children,” by Anne Bradstreet tells of mothers’ maternal fears that are accompanied by love. Bradstreet makes her writing personable for the reader by reminding them of their mother’s love to show that a mother’s love is like no other. Though the poem embodies a mother’s love for her child, mothers’ fears reveal a dark side that takes away the comforting feeling of love and places attention on death. By using words like “irrevocable”, Bradstreet emphasizes the inevitability of death to her child, while giving the audience a sense of just how grave a mother’s fears are, as they are even thinking of how the child will cope with death. The mother-child relationship can be viewed as a symbol of its own; one that represents a one-of-a-kind love, yet also many worries. The poem characterizes mothers as valuable individuals that place their trust and legacy in the hands of their children, hoping they will prosper. In “My Dear and Loving Husband,” Anne Bradstreet displays her love for her husband. Considering the time period, in which women did not have the rights they do in contemporary society, to be able to say “If ever man were loved by wife, then thee,” and that her husband’s love cannot be repaid, comes to show that the contemporary perception love has existed before. Bradstreet characterized her husband as a caring man, whom unlike convention, does not appear to flaunt his superiority and degrade his wife. Her husband’s characterization reaffirms...
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... Laura Bridgman: Deaf - blind Pioneer If you were a little girl in England at the time that Laura Bridgman was alive you would have named your doll after her and made your dolls clothes like Laura Bridgman. Then you would have poked your dolls eyes out. Laura Bridgman was born in a small town named Etna New Hampshire very close to Hanover New Hampshire on December 21st 1829. Her parents were Harmony and Daniel Bridgman, they owned a small farm in Etna. When Laura was born she was diagnosed with this thing called “fits” that Harmony and Daniel worried would damage her or maybe even kill her. Fits were these things that made her legs and arms jerk uncontrollably. She was born into a family of four she had two older sisters, Mary and Collina. When Laura was 20 months old the fits disappeared and Laura continued to grow up next to her older sisters. Everything was very good until one dark morning in February 1832 Laura and her sisters were stricken with what doctors called Scarlet Fever. This disease was awful it caused a rash and facial flush. Laura later recalled “I was saturated with very bad sores on my chin and neck and on my lowest right leg and other parts of the body…. My dearest mother was so painfully apprehensive that there was great danger of my dying.” In a dark bedroom of the farmhouse Laura lay next to Mary and Collina, their fevers raged on. At the age of four years old Collina passed away from the fever and at the age of six it took Mary to. The...
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...Anne Bradstreet was the first published female poet in England’s North American colonies. She is also recognized as the first Puritan predominate in American literature. As a married mother of eight, her poems and other writings addressed what she knew best; being a wife, mother, and a devout Puritan. Having been born into a wealthy family, she was extremely well educated which allowed her to possess knowledge on subjects many other woman, and even some men, of her time knew little about. She was also known for her personal library of over 9000 books. The poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, was written by Anne Bradstreet about her feelings for her husband Simon. It is often viewed as a love letter written by her, only to be viewed by him,...
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...Deformed “The Author to Her Book”, by Anne Bradstreet, is Bradstreet’s reaction to her work, “The Tenth Muse”, being poorly published without her knowledge or consent. To achieve her goal of appealing to a wide audience and alerting them of her pain and frustration, Bradstreet chooses to use the metaphor of mothering a physically-deformed child: a versatile topic that allows her to express her emotions. The first stanza of “The Author to Her Book” is about the first half of childhood, which is a serves as a representation of the smaller changes Bradstreet tried to make to her piece. The saying “little children, little problems; big children, big problems” can be applied directly to the stanzas. In the opening line, Bradstreet compares “The...
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...Dr. Kristin Redfield English 131-800 13 March 2014 A Diary in the Life of Anne Bradstreet: 1612-1672 May 1628 “If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can” (Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband"). I am so excited at this moment for I am about to marry a wonderful man. He is a gift from God and I treasure him. I thank God daily in my prayers for such a wonderful man. I met Mr. Bradstreet-Simon, when he began to work with my father. He and my father worked in service of the Earl of Lincoln. Dad had invited him over to dinner with us. I still remember the first time he came to our house. I was in my room and mama called me for introductions. Upon first laying eyes on him, I thought him to be a nice looking man. As he grew a closer relationship with my father and visited on a regular basis, I grew very fond of him and today, at the age of 16, I am marrying the love of my life, Mr. Simon Bradstreet. Recently, mother and I have heard father and Simon speak of journeying to America. I do not know if that will happen but I know that I will follow wherever my husband leads. A. Bradstreet June 1630 "I found a new world and new manners at which my heart rose [up in protest]" (Bradstreet). Wow, this is a grueling trip. It turned out that Simon and father were speaking about going to America. We boarded the Arbella headed for America in March...
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...Bradstreet's attitude toward losing her possessions in the story, “Here Follow Some Verses Upon The Burning of Our House” was that Anne felt that God had a reason for burning their families possessions and house to show them that these things they have been cherishing are not the things they should hold dearly. On lines 25 through 28 Anne says, “ Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, there lay that store i counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie, And them behold no more shall I.” In these brief 3 lines this is Anne saying that the few objects she valued have been taken away and no longer can be in anyone's possession. She realizes that she had been cherishing these few things more than she has been with her own God. Also in lines...
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...Anne Bradstreet was born to a wealthy father, Thomas Dudley. Her father’s wealth enabled her to pursue an education superior to the education most women received at that time. It is obvious that her education played an important role in her intellectual achievements. Her family moved from England, to America in 1630. Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse was published in London, in 1650. It became the first published of volume of poems in English, written by a resident of America. Bradstreet’s work is still being referred to today by many contemporary poets. Bradstreet was Puritan. Many critics say that her Puritan background is apparent in her writings as some of her poems allude to the Scriptures. “The Author to Her Book” can be identified as...
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...Biography of Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England, in the year 1612, daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke; Dudley, who had been a leader of volunteer soldiers in the English Reformation and Elizabethan Settlement, was then a steward to the Earl of Lincoln; Dorothy was a gentlewoman of noble heritage and she was also well educated. At the age of 16, Anne was married to Simon Bradstreet, a 25 year old assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company and the son of a Puritan minister, who had been in the care of the Dudleys since the death of his father. Anne and her family emigrated to America in 1630 on the Arabella, one of the first ships to bring Puritans to New England in hopes of setting up plantation colonies. The journey was difficult; many perished during the three month journey, unable to cope with the harsh climate and poor living conditions, as sea squalls rocked the vessel, and scurvy brought on by malnutrition claimed their lives. Anne, who was a well educated girl, tutored in history, several languages and literature, was ill prepared for such rigorous travel, and would find the journey very difficult. Their trials and tribulations did not end upon their arrival, though, and many of those who had survived the journey, either died shortly thereafter, or elected to return to England, deciding they had suffered through enough. Thomas Dudley and his friend John Winthrop made up the Boston settlement's government; Winthrop was...
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...Idella Rodriguez Professor: Jeff Jeske Eng. 225: American Literature Survey I September 22, 2014 The Lord Prevails in Sickness and in Death Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor were two different writers of different backgrounds. They were both Puritans who showed devotion to their families and their writing. They both accepted God through good times and bad. Even though Anne Bradstreet suffered from rheumatic fever as a child causing her to risk her own life having eight children, she never blames God for her getting sick and kept praising him throughout her illness. Although Edward Taylor did not suffer from any sickness, he had to bear the loss of a few of his children during their infancy. Even through all of this, he still praised God for taking them out of the pain they endured. He accepted his children’s death as God’s will. In the poem by Anne Bradstreet, “On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being but a Month, and One Day Old.,” she is grieving the loss of her grandchild. She says, “No sooner came, but gone, and fall’n asleep, Acquaintances short, yet parting us weep; Three flowers, two scarcely blown, the last I’ th’ bud, Cropt by th’ Almighty’s hand... (Baym 211). The words gone and asleep are in reference to death. Although Bradstreet speaks of the child’s sleep, it is not literal sleep, but symbolic, the child has died just a month after being born. When she talks about a short acquaintance, she is referring...
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...ANNE BRADSTREET 1. What does Bradstreet’s poetry reveal about Puritan ideas of the proper role of women? Note how, in writing her poetry, she both rejects and accepts (Prologue stanza 7) John Winthrop’s standards for women as he revealed them – first, in describing Mrs. Hopkins’s failure to attend “to such things as belong to women” and, second, in his “Speech to the General Court” (“The Woman’s own choice”). The puritans believed that women should not have the right to voice their opinion. The husbands were the ones who made the decisions in the household and not the women. The women played the role of being home doing house work and taking care of the kids. In John Winthrop’s writing, he says, “he is her lord, and she is to be subject to him” (Winthrop 76). Therefore, men are the dominant where the...
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