Love : Love Is Love By Anne Bradsteet

Anne Bradstreet’s feelings about her home represent the most material conflict. When her home burned down she wrote the poem to voice these feelings of hers. She describes the awakening to the “shrieks of dreadful voice” and going out to watch “the flame consume” her “dwelling place”. But she comforts herself with good Puritan dogma. The burning of the house is God’s doing and his doings should not be questioned. In looking over the stanzas where she

The poem “To my Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet, is not just an exceedingly felt expression of a wife’s marital love and commitment to her husband, as it is about a puritan women who is supposed to be reserved but she makes it her obligation to enlighten her husband of her devotion. A thorough analysis of the poem’s paradox, hyperbole, imagery and repetition reveals how she conveys her message.

The power of love in Harry Potter is unlike any other. So much so that it is an overwhelmingly significant and recurring theme throughout the entire series. From the self-sacrificial love of Lily Potter to the loving mother Molly Weasley to the unrequited love of Severus Snape. There is also the misunderstanding, or the absence, of love; which is equally as important in the novels. Especially since it was the main difference between Voldemort and Harry that was incredibly essential to the storyline. So essential that J.K. Rowling went out of the way to tell us about it in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when Dumbledore said, “if there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love” (229, SS). The concept of love is woven so inextricably within the very fabric of the novels, that it continues to challenge the reader all the way until the very end.

Anne Bradstreet's poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, shows her profound love and undying affection for her husband. For a Puritan woman who is supposed to be reserved, Bradstreet makes it her obligation to enlighten her husband of her devotion. She conveys this message through her figurative language and declarative tone by using imagery, repetition, and paradoxes.

Anne Bradstreet, in her poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” identifies love and unity between her and her husband during the Puritan literary period. Bradstreet describes the value of her through her husband’s perspective and how she is both greatly valued and prized. Bradstreet uses the anaphora “If ever” many times to persuade the audiences about her love of her husband. Finally, Bradstreet describes the marriage from the Bible’s perspective.

Poets have written love poems for centuries with the first said to be around 1000BC. But what is love? It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘ to have attachment to and affection for’. However, after studying various love poems, I have found that love is portrayed in many different ways. It can be possessive, hateful and pure and the fact that William Shakespeare said ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ suggests that love is more complicated than a simple dictionary definition.

"Snow" is a short story in which Ann Beattie, the author, presents an often unheard of view of her lover. The main character, experiences the heart warming of love towards her lover rather than the desolation of loneliness after her lover doesn’t come back. Later, when the lady learns that her lover is still out there, she knows that all hope of her lover coming back is still there. The crushing disappointment kills her that her lover just left her out there all alone for the winter. Published in the earlier where love was so true and courageous, the oppressive narrated nature of love in "Snow" may well be a reflection of their love to each other.

She, however, switches her source of writing to her husband’s love and endearment towards her. The reader can now understand another aspect of their love as Bradstreet mentions how she can never repay him for the love he has given her and she can only pray that the heavens will do what she could never. As a conclusion. she speaks of wanting to love each other, while living, so strongly, to the point of making them live forever. Wrapping your finger around this conclusion is quite the task, considering she may be hinting at immortality, a life in heaven and being chosen by God to have such as a reward for the love she wishes for.

A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and that often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In her poem, “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood introduces to her audience the word “love” from many different perspectives. Google defines “love” as “an intense feeling of deep affection”, or “having a deep feeling or sexual attachment to (someone).” But “love” is not something that can easily be described. Atwood goes on to present and portray the word through different illustrations, beginning with cliché examples and ending with her own personal scenarios. The author’s tone and metaphorical language effectively conveys her perspective of “love”.

Another critique from Laurie Clements Lambeth supports this by saying, “in writing love poetry to her husband she steps out of the boundaries set for Puritan women and sets foot in more masculine occupations,” even though this statement is more directed at gender roles, it shows again how Bradstreet does not want her religion to confine her (Lambeth). Later in Lambeth’s critique, she discusses the rhyme scheme by saying “Each heroic couplet is its own logical unit in the argument the poem sets forth. If the first line of the couplet is about the husband's love for the wife, the second line will be also, and then the next line will switch back to the wife, each line building toward the poem's concluding "then" moment, when the speaker, part wife, part cavalier, reveals to the husband through reason that they should continue loving each

In Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Bradstreet mentions the reciprocal love her and her husband share and how she prays that God will realize the strong bond the couple shares and that their love will be ever-lasting and will persevere even after death. Bradstreet stressed how important it was to her to be a good and humble Puritan wife and her poetry exuded the beliefs, values, and ideals of Puritan life.

In "To My Dear and Loving Husband" Anne Bradstreet presents an inexiplicable and sureal love that she claims to have towards her husband. Bradstreet tries to convince us that she has the most perfect and amazing loving in the world that is unparalleled to any love anyone has every had. The poet opens the text with a paradox: "If ever two were on," meaning that her husband and she are so close they are practically a whole. This then is followed by Bradstreet trying to convince readers that no woman has ever been as happy in love and marriage as she is. She speaks so confidently that she literally challenge other women to compare their love to hers; "Compare with me, ye women, if you can." After this she continues with lines that are echoed in

Over the course of the second quarter, I’ve read two text and they both approached the same topic, love. The two text I read were  “ Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “Sonnet 27” by William Shakespeare. The two text are written by different artist/authors, so of course they have different different tones, and what message they want to give off. In “Annabel Lee” Edgar Allan Poe says “And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me” this quote means that he wants her all to herself and that this Annabel felt the same way. In this he is expressing how much they love each other.

Finding the Love of Your Life was written by Neil Clark Warren, PH.D., and in this book he explains his ten basic principles of finding the right mate to spend your life with. He teaches people how to understand the two different types of love: passionate love and companionate love. He states that many do not get past the passionate love portion which is why many people go from relationship to relationship when the passion wears off.

Our innate tendencies affect out behavior patterns in the life cycle. From love, sex, and marriage and the change from societies to past and future times. The discoveries of why we have mating traits and how they are used in many meanings such as a smile or the way a person speaks with their body. The forces of culture and environment take part in human involvement in the world. While men and women start to change roles and rights are broaden in a marriage. Along comes divorce in which happens so often in societies because of many reasons. What we have inherited is from out ancestors and it repeats itself in every life cycle. The expedition of the book Anatomy of Love goes through the past to future on love, sex, marriage, and divorce and how it relates to modern societies.