"The Author To Her Book"
"The Prologue"
Anne Bradstreet is a poet in the 1600s, writes about social ideals, including prejudism, paradigms toward value, and love. Her writing often includes repitition and Figurative language to expand her meanings across broad subjects, but also make it have a meaning. Her poems also follow a pattern, which has a strong human-like emotion, followed by a loss, then resassured by the will of god. In "To My Dear and Loving Husband", she explains how love is more important than all the riches of the west. In "the Prologue", she describes how we view life, and that while we worship men that women *and other minorities* are of equal status as well. Last "The Author to Her Book" is written about how even though everyone is flawed, the past is the past, and we can only improve upon ourselves.
Journal:
Dear Diary,
The views of people like Anne Bradstreet are amazing, and inspire me to want to improve upon the new lands. I want to expand, and to create a more unified nation, and impove upon current cultures. I think minds like this can help the growth of this area, and improve with conditions with natives, with our own people, and the future races of the lands. But as we need the minds, we need the hands to produce the results these minds think of.
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Essential Question:
Essential dream to Anne Bradstreet seams to be equality with women's rights, and also the ability to love with no limits. While I'm sure the time period is more focused on working toward the ideals of god, this section is specificly about Mrs. Bradstreet. She does indeed also focus on him, but he is always their for her, for her good and her bad, so working toward him is not really part of her dream, as he just the spectator/decider of how her fate shall work.
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Political extension:
1 comment:
I agree with your reflection and essential question. They both capture and the idea that Bradstreet is trying to create, as you addressed being prejudice and love without limits. However I don’t think your diary entry is entirely accurate. When you consider the background of the puritans they were not so easily phased by the writings with different paradigms let alone writings of a woman. So I think that could be made more authentic through blunt opposition and very little consideration of her views.
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