ANNE BRADSTREET & PHILLIS WHEATLEY: TWO LIFES, TWO STYLES
Anne Bradstreet - Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
Anne Bradstreet was the first woman in America who became a writer. She received an excellent education and wrote about politics, history, medicine and theology. This poem has caught my attention. In this poem, Anne Bradstreet tells the readers that her house was burnt. There is only material loss and she accepts losing everything with quite calm. She justifies herself using the figure of God. Only God is the one who can give and take everything you have, that is what Anne Bradstreet thinks. Bradstreet tries to reconcile her faith in an almighty God to the tragedy that concerns her. Something worthy of analysis is the use of personification in her poem, which thereby shows that to have lost her objects really hurt her. The poem ends with these two lines: “The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above”. And that means that what it really matters is God and to have faith. For Puritan people, God is the most important thing in the world, so although Anne suffered losing her personal objects she is comforted by relying on God.
Changes in Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman in America to publish a book. Something that has caught my attention is Phillis Wheatley about change. At the age of 7 she was kidnapped and brought to America in a ship. Then she was purchased by John and Susanna Wheatley. In her short but powerful poem about slavery “On Being Brought from Africa to America” we can see that she changed her country. Also she changed her name and even her religion because she came from Pagan lands. She changed her beliefs and her lifestyle because of her personal experience in America.
In her conversion to Christianity, she let us to see the powerful and relevant that religion can be for some people. Wheatley found a new life due to religion. She expanded her understanding of the world. Although she was just a
Anne Bradstreet was the first woman in America who became a writer. She received an excellent education and wrote about politics, history, medicine and theology. This poem has caught my attention. In this poem, Anne Bradstreet tells the readers that her house was burnt. There is only material loss and she accepts losing everything with quite calm. She justifies herself using the figure of God. Only God is the one who can give and take everything you have, that is what Anne Bradstreet thinks. Bradstreet tries to reconcile her faith in an almighty God to the tragedy that concerns her. Something worthy of analysis is the use of personification in her poem, which thereby shows that to have lost her objects really hurt her. The poem ends with these two lines: “The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above”. And that means that what it really matters is God and to have faith. For Puritan people, God is the most important thing in the world, so although Anne suffered losing her personal objects she is comforted by relying on God.
Changes in Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman in America to publish a book. Something that has caught my attention is Phillis Wheatley about change. At the age of 7 she was kidnapped and brought to America in a ship. Then she was purchased by John and Susanna Wheatley. In her short but powerful poem about slavery “On Being Brought from Africa to America” we can see that she changed her country. Also she changed her name and even her religion because she came from Pagan lands. She changed her beliefs and her lifestyle because of her personal experience in America.
In her conversion to Christianity, she let us to see the powerful and relevant that religion can be for some people. Wheatley found a new life due to religion. She expanded her understanding of the world. Although she was just a