Anne - PowerPoint Presentation

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Anne bradstreet

1612 - 1672Slide2

overview

1628 married Simon Bradstreet at age 16

1630 immigrated to Massachusetts Bay in the first wave of the Great Migration on the

Arbella

1650 published

The Tenth Muse

(London)

Mother of 8 children

Husband was an important leader in Mass Bay

First colonist to write a sizable body of verseSlide3

Bradstreet’s poetry

Reveals the touchingly human drama of Puritan life

Written in clear, unadorned style

Imitates English Renaissance poets

Shows a capable Christian artist grappling with questions that still concern Christians today

Both public and private

Public poems highly imitative of what she believed her intended audience wanted

Private much freer in content, not published until after her death

Religious and domestic (domestic even contain religious content)

Vented her rebellion against the Puritan view of the womanSlide4

From “The Prologue”

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue

Who says my hand a needle better fits,

A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong,

For such despite they cast on Female wits:

If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,

They’l

say it’s

stoln

, or else it was by

chance.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what

they are

Men have precedency and still

excell

,

It is but vain unjustly to wage

warre

;

Men can do best, and women know it well

Preheminence

in all and each is yours;

Yet grant some small

ackowledgement

of

ours.Slide5

Personal poetry

Glories in her responsibility as a wife“To My Dear and Loving Husband”

Glories in her responsibilities as a mother

“In Reference to Her Children”

Cheerful submission to God’s will

“On My Dear Grandchild”

“Upon the Burning of Our House”