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In Anne Bradstreet's poem "In Reference to Her Children," she compares her children to treasures, jewels, and flowers, highlighting their value and importance in her life.
Anne speaks the poem to her husband. She allows us to eavesdrop.
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The poem "Contemplations" by Anne Bradstreet
In the poem Anne Bradstreet wrote for her children she uses the metaphor of birds in a nest to describe her children and how she protected them and when they get big they are going to leave her nest.
The speaker in the poem "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by Anne Bradstreet is the poet herself, Anne Bradstreet. The poem is a reflection on impending motherhood and the fears and hopes that come along with it.
Anne Bradstreet
One hyperbole in Anne Bradstreet's writing is in her poem "The Author to Her Book," where she refers to her work as a "rambling brat." This is an exaggeration to convey her feelings of dissatisfaction and embarrassment towards her own writing.
In "The Flesh and the Spirit," Anne Bradstreet explores the conflict between earthly desires (represented by Flesh) and spiritual fulfillment (represented by Spirit). The poem delves into the tension between materialistic pursuits and the pursuit of higher virtues and ultimately advocates for spiritual enlightenment over bodily pleasures.
Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem to her husband in the ninth month of a pregnancy. Giving birth in that wilderness in those years was a risky business, and Bradstreet feared she wouldn't survive it, and she wrote this poem to speak to him Everything in the natural world will be destroyed. She starts saying there is sadness in the joy of her new child because of high mortality rate when giving birth. No one can escape death.