Part one of term paper
During the Puritain era, poets wrote their literature in a very religious sense. Almost all of the Puritain writers based their literature on God. Anne Bradstreet, however, bases her poetry not on God, but on her thoughts and feelings on the events of her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poem An Author to Her Book explains Bradstreet’s anger to ...

Part two of term paper
... Bradstreet’s poetry to an ill-formed child. “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who after birth didst by my side remain,/ Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,/ Who thee abroad, exposed to public view”(1-4). Bradstreet explains in these lines, her anger towards her brother-in-law. She compares the publicizing of her poetry to the exposure of her ugly child to public view and humiliation. Bradstreet uses this comparison as a major way to express her ...