by Anne Bradstreet Reading Strategy To better understand a poems essential meaning paraphrase it or restate it in your own words Rewrite each sentence or clause in language and word order you understand ID: 498923
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“To My Dear and Loving Husband
” by Anne BradstreetSlide2
Reading Strategy
To better understand a poem’s essential meaning, paraphrase it, or restate it in your own words.Rewrite each sentence or clause in language and word order you understand.
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My love is so strong that rivers cannot relieve its thirst; only your love will satisfy me.
Paraphrase
My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Poet’s VersionSlide3
Literary Analysis
Puritan Plain Style is characterized by short wordsdirect statementsreferences
to everyday objects and experiencesStanza: a group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
Syntax: arrangement of words in sentences.EX: She
sometimes omits wordsInversion: the placing of sentence elements out of normal position.
EX: Instead of “let’s so persevere in love,” she says “in love let’s so persevere.”
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Vocabulary (page 74)
QuenchRecompenseManifoldPersevereWrite down the definition for each word in your notes