Essay Comparing Bradstreet And Elizabeth Bishop

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How a person processes the loss of a loved one or cherished items varies greatly. The grieving process for both Anne Bradstreet and Elizabeth Bishop was carried out through their poetry. While both authors begin this process by describing exactly what they lost, their grieving took different paths that ultimately affected how they emerged from the grieving process. Anne Bradstreet began her poem immersed in grief but in the end she was comforted by the presence of God. Elizabeth Bishop, however, began her poem in fairly good spirits but was so stricken by grief she could no longer write. Through their poems both Bradstreet and Bishop express exactly what they lost. In “Verses upon the Burning of Our House”, Bradstreet reflects on the items she loses by saying “My pleasant things in ashes lie and behold …show more content…

After she grieves for her emotional and material possessions, she corrects herself as she says “Adieu, Adieu all’s vanity”. L. 36 She is reminding herself that she is to follow God’s will and not grieve for her material things. As her poem comes to an end she says, “The world no longer let me love, my hope and treasure lies above.” L.53-54 Anne Bradstreet ends her poem as she comes to terms with her grief and offers her life to God. Elizabeth Bishop copes with her grief as well by writing “One Art”. She begins by saying “The art of losing isn’t hard to master” which is her way of convincing herself that the more you lose something the less it hurts. L.1 Bishop is trying to shield herself from the despair she is feeling, but as she writes she begins talking about things that have a greater significance. Eventually she says “It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster”. The level of grief gets much higher as Elizabeth Bishop writes that by the end she had to force herself to finish

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