Tao My Dear And Loving Husband Analysis

Many puritan authors are inspired by the guiding of their religion and the belief in ¨heaven rewards¨(Bradstreet 10). Nevertheless, there is an author that was inspired by the restraints of it and her need to (express) certain feeling. In the poem ¨To My Dear and Loving Husband¨, Anne Bradstreet expresses the romantic love that, due to her religion, is impermissible to manifest in certain ways. Not that religion forbids the expression of romantic love, but rather it constraints the author's raw expression of it. As a result, Bradstreet satisfies her desire to express her love through the poem using anaphora to emphasize her certainty about such love and (introducing) a hyperbolic metaphor to convey the amount of love she keeps for her husband. The use of literary devices, like hyperbolic metaphor, give intensity to the poem, fulfilling the reader's understanding of the extent of the author's love.

Bradstreet gives this emphasis through the use of anaphora in the first three lines. She compares ¨we¨ to all other couples while making a reference to the bible about being ¨one¨ (Bradstreet 1). In other words, she is trying to (convey) that, her husband and she are like other couples that claim they are made one through marriage. In addition, she later compares more specifically to other women who are ¨loved¨ by their ¨man¨ (Bradstreet 2). Otherwise stated, the author tries to (emphasize) that she is also being loved by her husband. Nevertheless, she continues with the comparison addressing directly to the women. She states that if any women were ¨happy in a man¨ than no one could ¨compare¨ to her. (In other words), Bradstreet makes her biggest emphasis in this line by referring to her happiness as being the