Kaytlin Woollen Kim Harper Essay One October 19‚ 2014 Three Life Lessons Literary Analysis of “Upon the Burning of our House” “Fire‚ Fire!” these are the cries that woke the poet Anne Bradstreet one ordinary night and changed her life forever. The fire inspired the poem “Verses Upon the Burning of our House”. This poem is written from her personal experience and reflection‚ which is a trademark of her work. She is often referred to as America’s first “authentic” female poet. She
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conquered unknown lands. He “defeated and beheaded a succession of three Turkish officers in single combat” (Smith 58). Anne Bradstreet was a house wife that lived from 1612 to 1672 but was no less brave by showing her work when it was looked bad upon to do so by women. John Smith is a
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and mother. Puritans were a group of people that reformed religion which adhered to religion‚ moral and social order. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan that wrote poetry reflecting on what she had experienced as a woman‚ even though during this era women should not challenge societal norms. She wrote many poems that contained subliminal content within them. One poem that Bradstreet wrote‚ “In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess‚ Queen Elizabeth” was to the late Queen Elizabeth. She expresses her
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Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson were two puritan women whose writing portrayed them to have had strong religious beliefs. Both Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet religious puritan values allowed them to survive the harsh struggles that they endured in their live Mary Rowlandson main struggle was her captivity when the Indians tried to regain the lands that belonged to their tribe. On the other hand Bradstreet struggled with childhood diseases
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#Puritan#firstfeminist#sarcasm#wecannotallsucceedwhenhalfofusareheldback Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan woman who could possibly be the first feminist. “The Prologue” was written to introduce her other works but she also used this opportunity to express her feelings of oppression by men and the Puritan beliefs. She uses sarcasm and a critical tone to make her points. Though many have supposed that this poem was a confession that Bradstreet felt the same way about her poetry‚ in reality it was a slap in the
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have very different views on God and Christianity. Anne Bradstreet from the 1600’s has a humble understanding of God‚ while Johnathon Edwards‚ 1700’s‚ has a way to instill fear into his audience and getting them to convert to christianity. Both have two different ways of spreading the word of God. They pull emotions from the reader during and after they read. Bradstreet and Edwards both have very conflicting views on the Christian religion. Bradstreet is a humble servant of the Christian faith while
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them and never challenged it even if they were unhappy with the results. “ Verses upon the Burning of your House”‚ is a poem about a woman‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ who loses all her goods in life but never her faith. Anne Bradstreet displays her faith in God by saying‚ “I blest His name that gave and took‚ / That laid my goods now in the dust. / Yea‚ so it was‚ and so ‘twas just. /It was his own‚ it was not mine‚”(29). Bradstreet was never angry with what happened because she believed there was a greater
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Admiration of Anne Bradstreets values as compared to those of Ben Franklin and Johnathan Edwards The relationships that people have with others has a severe impact on that person’s life‚ albeit many are good‚ some‚ though‚ are bad. How we choose to form‚ maintain and use these relationships is up to us‚ just as what they mean is up to us too. I will show the relationships of some writers and how they treat others‚ as an important value to me. Three writers of our era‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Jonathan
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Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” share the theme of romantic love‚ and the authors go about elucidating the theme in similar ways‚ regardless of their opposing views. Anne Bradstreet’s poem‚ “To My Dear
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Double Bondage..Puritan and Women Being oppressed by their male counterparts‚ women were extremely disgruntled. As the quote explains‚ Anne Bradstreet’s “poetry must have been her outlet for her discontent.” This discontent stems from the oppression of women of her time. Women in Puritan society during the dawn of the New World in the English colonies were extremely oppressed‚ double-teamed by both religion and men. Puritan society in New England was a society with a strong patriarchal community
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