Anne Bradstreet To My Dear And Loving Husband

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'To my dear and loving husband' is a sonnet written by Anne Bradstreet, written in Iambic pentameter. It has a rhyme scheme of couplets, aa, bb, cc etc. Anne was a very privileged women, her husband (whom she married at 18) and her fatter both founded Harvard University. Anne was seen as America's first female published poet.

In the first opening line of the poem it reads, 'If ever two were one then surely we'. The use of the first person singular pronoun 'we' indicates that her and her husband are one as two. She is implying to us from the start that she (Anne) has found her soulmate. The Greek gods had a theory that we are all separated from another soul and torn in half when we are born and spend our lives trying to find our other half. …show more content…

Firstly, the quotation written by comedian Henny Youngman is, 'I miss my wife's cooking - as often as I can.' The noun phrase, 'I miss my wife's cooking...' indicates a sense of emotion and love towards his wife. It is very stereotypical of a housewife until you read the end of the sentence, '...as often as I can'. This implies that he is not a stereotypical man and doesn't expect his wife to cook for him and serve him, like other men would.

Next, the quotation, 'The secret to a happy marriage is still a secret', implies that no one actually knows how to have a good marriage, you have to just go with the flow on it. The use of sibilance in the words, secret', 'is' and 'still', have a very strong 's' sound to them. This highlights the fact of quietness and whispers, implying that it is a very well kept secret. The repetition of the word secret, is putting emphasis on the fact that it really is a secret and can not be …show more content…

The noun 'Romance' indicates that you should really love the person that you are with, this quotation is implying that you need to respect and show your love to the person that you care about. Molly edmonds however is implying that in order to show your love you need to buy the other person things in particularly jewelry. This is aimed at women quite obviously and not men. There is a sense of money is love in this paragraph.

The things that would be the same in these two extracts is the subject of marriage and love. Both Anne Bradstreet and Henny Youngman both love their partners and feel a duty to respect them and love them. Both extracts show lexical sets of money, with the words, 'gold', 'riches', 'expensive', 'repay' and 'recompense'. This indicates to us that money was and is still thought about today when you love someone. They both highlight the point that it is women that need to be bought too, not

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