Anne Bradstreet
Oh God Help Me
The poem For Deliverance from a Fever is a beautiful poem by Anne Bradstreet. The use of rhyme and rhythm throughout this poem depicts to me that Anne had an exceptional understanding of poetry and how to write poetry. Anne uses a great array of words to make the poem more appealing to not only the reader but also herself. This finely written poem portrays to me that Anne was a very spiritual women but maybe had doubts about everything going on around her. The course of this paper will iterate what the poem For Deliverance from a Fever by Anne Bradstreet means to me.
I believe that Anne Bradstreet's main purpose in writing this poem was not for the entertainment of readers, but for her to escape the oppression of women in the Puritan times. My reasoning behind this hypothesis being that this whole poem is just a prayer to God to rid her of the sickness, which ailed her. Why would Anne Bradstreet write this poem? I believe that Anne was writing this poetry as a rebellious effort to illustrate that women are just as talented as men, if not more talented. Every …show more content…
She writes that her "aching head did break" (Bradstreet 277), how she was so faint that she could not even speak, and that she could not read the literature that she normally reads. These writings are very realistic. The first twelve lines portray realism very well. It is possible that Anne Bradstreet was trying to make God see her pain by using such description as to what she was going through, as well as trying to make the readers see what she was going through, I believe that she knew the men of the Puritan community would be reading her writings first, so maybe she wanted to let the men know how she and other women felt when they were sick and afflicted. Once again letting men know what women felt and trying to open the door for less oppression on
The poem For Deliverance from a Fever is a beautiful poem by Anne Bradstreet. The use of rhyme and rhythm throughout this poem depicts to me that Anne had an exceptional understanding of poetry and how to write poetry. Anne uses a great array of words to make the poem more appealing to not only the reader but also herself. This finely written poem portrays to me that Anne was a very spiritual women but maybe had doubts about everything going on around her. The course of this paper will iterate what the poem For Deliverance from a Fever by Anne Bradstreet means to me.
I believe that Anne Bradstreet's main purpose in writing this poem was not for the entertainment of readers, but for her to escape the oppression of women in the Puritan times. My reasoning behind this hypothesis being that this whole poem is just a prayer to God to rid her of the sickness, which ailed her. Why would Anne Bradstreet write this poem? I believe that Anne was writing this poetry as a rebellious effort to illustrate that women are just as talented as men, if not more talented. Every …show more content…
She writes that her "aching head did break" (Bradstreet 277), how she was so faint that she could not even speak, and that she could not read the literature that she normally reads. These writings are very realistic. The first twelve lines portray realism very well. It is possible that Anne Bradstreet was trying to make God see her pain by using such description as to what she was going through, as well as trying to make the readers see what she was going through, I believe that she knew the men of the Puritan community would be reading her writings first, so maybe she wanted to let the men know how she and other women felt when they were sick and afflicted. Once again letting men know what women felt and trying to open the door for less oppression on