Anne Bradstreet's To My Dear And Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet was a very popular poet. She was the first women poet in the American Colonies. In her time a women being a poet was a very bold step. Society during this time expected women to perform household chores rather than write poetry. She was very intimate about the poetry she wrote. Anne mostly wrote about her husband and her children. In Bradstreet's poetry it shows that she is a typical Puritan woman, devoted to God and to her husband. Other times in her poet Bradstreet's poetry was highly controversial. Anne Bradstreet has two sides of her when she writes her poems. There is devoted Puritan Anne and Mistress, rebel Anne. Puritan Anne loves, griefs, fears and experiences emotions. Devoted Anne believes in God. Rebel Anne speaks

Marriage was very important in Puritan society. Men and women were remained to stay married until they died. Puritan society did not believe in divorce or adultery. Anne believed marriage was very important as well. Her marriage was very special to her. She was devoted to her marriage like a Puritan should be. Anne and her husband seem to have the perfect marriage in a Puritan society. “If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye woman, if you can” (226). We can tell by this quote she was very happy in her marriage. She also states that there is no other woman who is as happy as she is in her marriage. The poem begins with Anne describing her and

The first line of the poem lets us know the emotional phase she is writing in. “With troubled heart and trembling hand I write” (230). She is in a state of weakness and pain. She lets her anger come in between her and God. As rebel Anne does, she speaks truthful on how she really does feel. She does not care what anybody else says. She was very troubled with the death of her granddaughter. In the beginning of the poem Anne is heartbroken. “The heavens have changed to sorrow my delight” (230). In this line she states that God is responsible for her grandchild’s death. Rebel Anne is very angry with God. She is also very disappointed with God. In the poem she questions if stable joy can ever be found while God fades all her loves one away. In the end of the poem Puritan Anne speaks. She puts her anger aside. She accepts human existence. She also realizes her granddaughter is with Jesus Christ in heaven and that she will be there with her when she goes to