Part one of term paper
M.A. Richmond states in Bid the Vassal Soar, “There is a marked similarity between the two poets in the accent on personal humility and deep religious feeling.” The two poets that the quote is referring to, are Anne Bradstreet, and Phillis Wheatley. Bradstreet and Wheatly may have been different on the outside, but their writing styles ...

Part two of term paper
... might explode, Bradstreet was tutored by natives of England. This and her access to a library helped her become the accomplished writer of many poems. However , the greatest influence on her writing was religion. Being brought up as a puritan, she had puritan religious beliefs, which were exposed in her poems. In her poems, Bradstreet used a literary device called inversion. These poems were discovered by her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, who published them without her knowing. Phyllis ...