“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
• Puritan Plain Style of Writing
o Characterized by short words, direct statements, and references to ordinary everyday objects.
▪ I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
o Puritans believed poetry should serve God.
o Poetry appealing to the senses or emotions was viewed as dangerous.
• Bradstreet’s use of the personal and emotional subject of love is NOT typical of the Puritan Plain style of writing.
• Paraphrase: To paraphrase is to restate in one’s own words.
o Poet’s version:
▪ My love is such that rivers cannot quench, nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
▪ Paraphrase or Restatement:
• My love is so strong that rivers cannot relieve its thirst; only your love will satisfy me.
• Suffix –fold: means a specific number of times or ways.
o Manifold: in many ways
o Tenfold: ten ways or times
• Puritan Plain Style: simple and direct style of writing characterized by short easily understood words common to seventeenth-century conversation
• Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses a person who is dead or not physically present, a personified object, a non-human thing, or an abstract concept.
o Bradstreet uses apostrophe in lines 1 and 8.
• Direct Address: a term of direct address is a name, title, or phrase used in speaking directly to someone or something. The term of direct address is set off by commas.
o Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning wheel complete.
“Huswifery” by Edward Taylor
• compares the household task of making cloth with the gift of God’s salvation.
o The words spinning wheel, distaff, flyers, spoole, wheel, and yarn are symbolic of the Puritan Plain Style because each word names a part of a device used for making cloth.
• This extended metaphor expresses Taylor’s deep belief in God and celebrates the divine presence in everyday life.
• The poem is like a prayer imploring God to guide the speaker to do His bidding.
• By submitting to God’s will, the speaker hopes to achieve eternal salvation and glory.
• Although the poem uses simple words to describe common household items, Taylor has created a rich multi-leveled metaphor.
o Spinning wheel to yarn
o Yarn to loom
o Loom to cloth
o Cloth to holy robes
▪ These represent the steps the speaker hopes he can follow in life to glorify God and to achieve a state of grace.
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