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Anne Bradstreet’s
Special Love to Her Family
members in Her Poems
Anne
Bradstreet was the first female poetess in America
whose English poems
are
worth
reading.
And
one
of
her
collection
of
poems
is
Contemplations
that
was
considered
as
an
immortal
masterpiece.
This
poetess
who
grew
up
in
a
puritan
background had many poems influenced by
Puritanism at that time. For example,
The
Tenth
Muse
Lately Sprung
up in
America
, it
was
a poem
that expressed her
puritan
thoughts well. Her later poems
which wrote for her family showed her great love
to
her family members.
What
’
s more,
those
pomes indicated that
she accepted
puritan
thoughts
totally
which
we
can
find
from
her
lines.
For
instance,
To
My
Dear
and
Loving
Husband
,
Before the Birth of
One of Her Children
and other poems
that wrote
for her grandchildren.
To be a daughter, a wife, a mother and
a grandmother, Anne Bradstreet played
different roles in life and she loved
family members very much which was expressed
in
her
poems
about
family.
When
read
those
poems,
it
’
s
easy
to
find
the
most
important thing in her life is family.
Now I will analyze her special love to her family
members from her poems: the love to
father, to husband, to children.
I.
Anne Bradstreet
’
s admiring
and adoring love to father
Reading Anne
Bradstreet
’
s famous poem
To the Memory of My Dear and
Ever
Honored
Father
,
the
admiring
and
adoring
love
was
obvious.
Her
father
Thomas
Dudley who brought up an outstanding
daughter loved her so much, so for a daughter,
she felt grateful to him. The death of
her father was a mournful thing for her. In this
poem
‘
my mournful
mind, sore pressed, in trembling
verse
’
, it expressed how
painful
to
her
father
’
s
death,
her
heart
is
so
painful
and
it
is
difficult
to
expressed
the
mourning by herself. Father is not only
her father, but also the guide and the instructor
for her, so she loved and thanked her
father
‘
To whom I ought
whatever I could do
’
.
Then she expressed her admiring love to
him
‘
Let malice bite and
envy gnaw its fill,
He was my father,
and I
’
ll praise him
still
’
. That is to say,
nothing can change her love
and
admiration to her father. Because he was not only
a founder but a patriot to the
nation,
and
‘
others tell his
worth
’
, so did she. She was
proud of her father, she said:
My
father
’
s God, be God of me
and mine. Those words indicated her admiring love
to
her
father,
because
father
’
s
belief
was
her
belief,
and
father
was
her
belief,
what
’
s
more, father loved his people and
humility, she told us
he has
‘
no ostentation in all his
ways
’
. Then
Bradstreet compared her father with other famous
men, kings. Maybe the
kings
were
remembered
by
people
because
the
‘
sumptuous
monuments,
gold,
buildings
’
. On
the contrary, her father
‘
he
whose name is graved in the white stone,
shall last and shine when all of these
are gone
’
. These lines
indicated her adoring love
to
her
father,
in
her
eyes;
her
father
was
immortal
who
can
be
remembered
by
generation though time was
past.
In this poem,
it is
not
difficult to
find her
special
love to father. The puritan
thoughts influenced this poem,
‘
oft spake of death and with
a smiling cheer
’
which expressed her father
’
s
attitude to death, for him, it was time to
mown ripe wheat and he had own
celestial barn after death,
here
’
s no honor, wealth,
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