Bradstreet Response

Anne Bradstreet wrote poems to express how she feels about her life and her husband. One of the poems “The Author of Her Book” tells about her as a child growing up. The purpose of this poem was to let her audience know that she was not the wealthiest and did not care about what people said about her.There seemed to be like she had some self- esteem problems or she just felt that since she did not own much that she could never get rid of her flaws when she stated “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.”
Bradstreet gave some credibility toward her poem when she wanted to dress better but she did not own homespun cloth. What appeals to the reader’s emotions is it seemed she wore rags as her clothes and people would make her even more conscience about herself by their pointing or laughing. Bradstreet knew she was poor and told us how she felt toward it. She mentioned that her mother was poor as well and caused her to go out of the door. It is unclear as to who left the house, perhaps Bradstreet was kicked out or she wanted to start her own life better than her old.
Anne Bradstreet’s second poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is pretty self-explanatory; it talks about her love, her husband.Bradstreet appeals to the women mostly and other readers in this poem because she talks about how her husband is loving to her and that she wants their love to continue to be everlasting, even after they have passed on to the heavens. The women receive between the line logos when Bradstreet said “If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.” This meant that she wants the women to speak out in writing somewhere how their relationship is and how their husband provides for them .

Bradstreet compares her love for her husband to a river that u could not drink all of its water if you wanted to because it is overflowing. She prays that the heavens will open up and accept both of them in as one and that their love be forever ongoing.
The two poems we read could go together in some way because the first poem ended off with out of the door and the second poem started with two were one. It could be that after Bradstreet left the house, she quickly found love to fill the holes in her self-esteem to keep her from doing harm to herself.