Anne Bradstreets- "To My Dear and Loving Husband"- http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/to_my_dear_and_loving_husband.html
Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton , England in 1612. Her familys position caused her to gorw up in cultured circumstances and she was very smart for her time. Anne happened to be a very sickly woman. Despite this, she still managed to have eight children. Along with smallpox, Anne soon was a victim of paralysis of the joints. As the years progressed, Anne became even more sick and died on September 16th, 1672 in Andover Massachusetts at the age of 60.
The rhyming in "To My Dear and Loving Husband definetely contributes to the "cuteness" and "happiness" of this poem. It draws you in and makes you anticipate the next rhyme that goes with the previous line you have read. Also the metaphor " I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold" is excellent. It obviously shows how much she loves her husband.
Anne Bradstreets- "Upon Some Distemper of Body"-http://www.annebradstreet.com/upon_some_distemper_of_body.htm
This poem is about Bradstreets body being in pain and from what I got out of it, God taking the pain away. In the first half of the poem she describes all the symptoms of her body being in pain. In the second half, she describes it being taken away by the help of a greater power. I really liked reading this because I am in pain alot from all the physical acitivties I do. This gives me some hope that maybe a higher power will help me out one day. Once again, she rhymes in this poem. Rhyming to me, is a key factor of making a poem good and not boring. Like I said in the previous paragraph, it draws you in and keeps you wanting to know the following rhyme.
"Is there anything about the works of this poet that makes them distinctly American?"
From what I've read, nothing makes this poet distinctly American. She focuses on love, pain, sadness, happiness etc. These subjects do noty make any poet distinctly American. i am not saying she is your average poet, but she is not classified as distinctly American.
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I like the way you disected the poem of "To my dear and loving husband." You gave me a good description of what you felt Bradstreet was really talking about through this poem and how she loves her husband. I also felt that the metaphor " I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold" represents how much she loves her husband.
ReplyDeleteAlex, I think you did a good job of analyzing a great American poet and picked two great poems. I agree that she is not distinctly American because of her styles and some of the issues she discusses in her poems.
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