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Anne Bradstreet Background and Poetry pgs. 114-119 (notes)

QUESTI!S !TES

Anne Bradstreet(pg. 114)- first notable American poet

- well educated (father worked for Earl of Lincoln, she used his librar)

- married at the age of 1! to "imon #radstreet- used her religious faith and her poetr to endure the hardships of

colonial life- poetr focused on realities of her life$ husband, children, and home- brother-in-law published her poetr without her permission % 1stbook of

poetr published b an American colonist

"#gurat#$e %anguage(pg. 11&)'iguratie language helped the uritan poets cone ideas about their

religious faith and their personal lies.

- metaphor % direct comparison of two unlike things without using like,as, resembles, or than (E*. +ur house is our nest.)

- e*tended metaphor % a comparison that is drawn out and compares at

length and in man was (E*. +ur house is our nest we fl awa onl toreturn to its snug protection.)

- personification % when a nonhuman thing is gien human ualities (E*.

+ur house wraps our famil in a warm embrace.)

- perbole % the truth is e*aggerated for emphasis (E*. +ur house meansmore to us than all the mone in the world.)

- Allusion % a reference to something to enhance meaning (biblical,

historical, literar, geographical, artistic, etc.)

t&er %#terary Ter's (pg. 11&)

- archaic language % words that were once commonl used but are nowout of date or old-fashioned

- inerted snta* % sentence structure in which the e*pected order of

words is reersed

To y *ear and %o$#ng +us,and(pg. 11!)

- oerall message % loes husband completel, uses lots of hperboles

- line 1 % reference to biblical /knowing0 and oining of husband and wifeto make one person % the are the ultimate pair and hae the ultimate

relationship

- lines 2-4 % challenges other women to proe or show that the loe theirhusbands more than does she

- line & % hperbole - she alues his loe more than a mine of gold

- line ! % hperbole % use the beginning of line & to begin line !independentl % allusion to the riches of the +rient3East

- line % her feelings3her need for her husband cannot be uenched % she

is neer satisfied % she alwas craes more from him (in a good wa)

- line 5 % the onl wa he can repa her for what she does (household) isto loe her in return

- line 6 % when he loes her, it is more than she can repa

- line 17 % onl heaen can reward him for his loe to her- lines 11-18 % inerted snta* - let9s loe unconditionall now because

when we die our loe will lie foreer, and, therefore. we lie foreer

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QUESTI!S !TES

Upon t&e Burn#ng o ur +ouse/ 0uy 12/ 1333 (pgs. 115-116)

- oerall message % :od gies and can take awa apparentl e had a

reason to take awa #radstreet9s home3earthl possessions (toomaterialistic;)

- inerted snta* % lines 1, 8, 2, &-!, , 5, 81, 88, 82, 84, 8, 85, 86, 27, 2,

47, 48, 42, &2