Compare And Contrast To My Dear And Loving Husband
Classmates,
My assigned poem for this weeks discussion was "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet. The poem is of closed form comprised of both rhythm and rhyme, and gives a vivid image of a woman's bountiful and enduring love for her husband. Given the time period during which Bradstreet lived, and the imaginable struggles her and her family must have gone through, a significant other such as this would have been a Godsend. I couldn't imagine having to go through the struggles that many initial Americans had to endure when we first colonized this country. In the first line, Bradstreet opens with "If ever two were one, then surely we" (Muller and Williams 225), showing the complete unity between her and her husband. In the
My assigned poem for this weeks discussion was "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet. The poem is of closed form comprised of both rhythm and rhyme, and gives a vivid image of a woman's bountiful and enduring love for her husband. Given the time period during which Bradstreet lived, and the imaginable struggles her and her family must have gone through, a significant other such as this would have been a Godsend. I couldn't imagine having to go through the struggles that many initial Americans had to endure when we first colonized this country. In the first line, Bradstreet opens with "If ever two were one, then surely we" (Muller and Williams 225), showing the complete unity between her and her husband. In the