Part one of term paper
Throughout life people dwell on the fact that material things are all that matter in this superficial world. Yet, there are a few people, scattered throughout our over populated universe, that think our lives lead to a better world up above. It is expressed quite clearly that Anne Bradstreet doesn’t dwell on these unimportant matters fo ...

Part two of term paper
... Bradstreets ability to make everything flow with simplicity and meaning. She starts the poem out with a sad depressing tone and at her volta, “And did thy wealth on earth abide”(ln 38) switches to a tone full of hope and faith. In Bradstreet’s first stanza she speaks of how she went to bed and regrets of not looking more clearly before “rest she took”(ln 1). She is awaken by shrieks of fire that is not aroused by any man. As she sees the light of the fire at the beginning of stanza two, ...