Comparing Huswifery And To My Dear Loving Husband

In the poems “Huswifery” by Edward Taylor and “To My Dear Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet use very contrasting writing styles. These were both written in the Puritan era; where the government was a theocracy, the church controlled everything and the people’s lifestyles were severely restricted. I believe that these poems are prime examples of how their strict lives affected the way the writer’s poems came out the way they did.
The poems use different sentence orders. In “Huswifery”, the writer uses regular sentence order in what we would call modern English: Subject, verb and then everything else. “And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee” (4). This form of sentence order was unusual and not common to speech at this time. However, the most common form was syntax and that’s where “To My Dear and Loving Husband” comes in. This poem uses the out of order sentence structure, for example: “The heavens reward thee manifold, I/ pray” (12-13). Most people think this way of writing is more sophisticated but in this time, it was the norm. A difference was discovered

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” uses varying sentences lengths and types. The whole poem is made up of words eight to nine words in length and has complex and compound sentences. For example, “If ever a man were lov’d by wife, then thee; / If ever wife was happy in a man” (2-3). A sort of pattern is formed with these sentences: short, long, short and at the end, long. The poem is not very complex in sentence choice but has semi-long sentences. Meanwhile, “Huswifery” sentences are quite different in length and structure. The entire poem is impressively made up of only nine sentences, varying from six to nine words in each sentence and consisting mostly of simple and short or complex sentences. An example of this in the poem: he yarn is fine” (9). All in all, “Huswifery” is poem of greater height on the writing scale than “To My Dear and Loving