Compare And Contrast Millay And Anne Bradstreet

When love is typically described, it is thought of as a joy, almost pure. Most people want to be in love. Millay, on the other hand, seems to represent passionate love as almost burdensome. When referring to the act of love itself, she describes the women she identifies with “bearing as I bear/love like a burning city in the breast” (lines 7-8). She also states “[I] Do suffer love” (line 11). The words here are all negative, in contrast to what the reader would expect. Yet, the narrator also seems to look upon this way of loving with longing. She seeks the stories of the past, “Hunt[ing] the amorous line” (line 6). This way of love is how she wants to feel, and

Anne Bradstreet was America's first noteworthy poet in spite of the fact that she was a woman. Both the daughter and wife of Massachusetts governors, Bradstreet suffered all of the hardships of colonial life, was a mother, and still found time to write. Her poem, "The Author to Her Book," is an example of Bradstreet's excellent use of literary techniques while expressing genuine emotion and using domestic subject matter.

Travelling across the ocean to New England, Anne Bradstreet looked to America as a safe place to practice her puritan religion (Eberwein 4). She wrote many poems about her family and experiences, incorporating her faith and personal struggles into her works. A hundred years later, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped from her homeland in Africa and brought to America, where she became a devout Christian and a renowned poet (James). Both women received an education above other women of their time leading to their literary accomplishments. The purpose of this paper is to determine the similarities and differences between Anne Bradstreet’s and Phillis Wheatley’s poems’ content, in terms of their themes and language by answering the following questions.

The opening lines of the poem show how strong her feelings are for her husband. Bradstreet shows this by the use of a great example of a paradox, “if two were one, then surely we.” This shows that the magnitude of her love and affection is so deep that she’s comparing two beings as one. She praises her love for her husband so much

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX),” the poem’s writer originally discredits the value of love, claiming that it is not essential because it does not support life; however, later Millay describes that love has some value.

Repetition is another literary element that Bradstreet utilized in the first three lines of the poem. "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,..." (1-3). Bradstreet gives their relationship as an example to others and tells the reader that if ever a couple was the most devoted to each other, it would be her and her husband. By using anaphora, she attempts to prove that the depths of her feelings are beyond compare to anyone else's.

The lives and works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley are similar in many respects. For example, both Phillis and Anne had to leave their home countries and journey to North America. The journey would have been more or less difficult for the both of them, though given Phillis Wheatley’s standing as a slave, one can imagine that her journey was not as comfortable as Bradstreet's. Another quality they both share is their education, a luxury that was not afforded to women of their times. This education is undoubtedly what led to their interest in poetry, another quality they share, and one that was also typically outside the grasp of women.

Anne Bradstreet’s works impacted the verses of Eavan Boland’s “ Becoming Anne Bradstreet” not religiously, but with the influence that her poems easily had upon others.

Anne Bradstreet, as a poet, wrote as both a Puritan woman in her time and as a woman ahead of her time. Zach Hutchins analyzed this tension in “The Wisdom of Anne Bradstreet: Eschewing Eve and Emulating Elizabeth”, and makes a primary argument that three of Bradstreet’s poems provide evidence that Bradstreet rejects the Puritan views of a woman while keeping her own personal faith. Hutchins fither his argument by declaring that readers should not view Bradstreet as a symbol of rebellion or submission, instead as a symbol of wisdom.

In the nineteenth century women were mostly left out when it came to writing. A lot of women felt that they were not capable of writing or that their job was just to focus on the domestic aspects of life and that didn’t include writing. There are two women who stood out and up against the prejudices of the women in the nineteenth century. Both, Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson, were the first published female writers in America at the time. Both women faced the hardships of that time.

Why did the poet put the poem in that specificate place in the book? It is about how love will servive death or what we perceive as love. The poem is about a man questioning love or questioning what will survive

Anne Bradstreet What a Wonderful Woman: Essay 1 Having read all of Anne Bradstreet’s outstanding poems I’ve obtained a greater understanding of the persona of a wonderful woman is supposed to be. A wonderful woman must be a strong intellectual woman, who has a true love to her family, and must also have a strong connection with her faith. Anne Bradstreet began her journey of becoming a wonderful woman by first growing into a strong and intellectual woman. When Anne Bradstreet was very young she separated herself from the status queue by obtaining an education that other women in the society wouldn’t even think about doing. Her father Thomas Dudley was a great teacher to his daughter giving her a variety of books such as Shakespeare, Phillip Sydney, and countless others in his library which allowed her to expand her knowledge through the books.

Although love can be the most wonderful feeling in the world, it is not the answer to all of one’s problems. Edna St. Vincent Millay, author of “Love Is Not All,” makes this clear in her poem. She states that love “…is not meat nor drink/ Nor slumber nor a roof against the

Anna Bradstreet grows up in a healthy family. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley who is the manager of the country estate of the Puritan Earl of Lincoln. Anna Bradstreet got married at the age of 16 to the young Simon Bradstreet who was working with Anna father. Anna Bradstreet never went to school but her father always taught her and gave her an education. It that time many women didn’t have an education. Anna considers one of the best and most important American poets. When Bradstreet was a little girl, she writes poems to honor and please her father. After she got married, she kept writing and it marriage didn’t stop her. Her brother in law, John Woodbridge, pastor of the Andover Church, brought with him to London a manuscripts collection of her poetry in 1650. It was her first book, The Tenth Muse was the first published volume of poems written by an American resident and it was widely read. Anne Bradstreet was a very religious and Godly woman. Anne Bradstreet always tried to live life in a perfect way. Anne Bradstreet was a woman of God and she always wrote about her faith in her poetry. She always talked about the Puritan and their believes and views on salvation and reclamation in her poetry. Anna seems to believe that God has punished her through her sicknesses. The Puritans believed suffering was God’s plan of preparing the soul and heart for accepting his mercy