PURITAN POET Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet Born Anne
PURITAN POET Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet § Born Anne Dudley § around 1612 § probably born in Northampton, England § Married Simon Bradstreet when she was 16 § They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 § Died on Sept. 16, 1672
Bradstreet’s Writing • The first important American poet • Best known for The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America • • A collection of poetry The first published poetry written in America Published in London in 1650 The poems mainly focus on: • Science • High morals • Religious ideals • Her best poems describe home life in colonial New England
Open to page 90 DISSECTING BRADSTREET’S POETRY
“To my Dear & Loving Husband” • How many stanzas does the poem have? • How are these stanzas divided? • How many syllables does each line have? • Is there a consistent rhyme scheme? If so, what is it? • What literary devices does Bradstreet use? • Locate where you see each device used
Art Inspires Art Read this poem inspired by the life and literature of Anne Bradstreet.
Puritan Woman By Rose Shade “I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits. ” ~ Anne Bradstreet There in Massachusetts We built our "city upon a hill" For all the world to see And find example in– But that first winter 5 There was just the land, Lying before us Like a vast unfinished garment– And my cold hands holding needle Were only female And busy with the work of babes. 10 The men would slash and shape the earth, And style to God's design The stuff of law and state; I had small garments of my own To fashion. So in the chill Of winter nights by candle– 15 When the children were in bed– Why did my hand, shaped only For the shaft of spinning wheel Or bar of cradle, Dare to grasp a pen? 20 Perhaps it was the bare house, The wolf's howl, the Indians, The memory of those months of shifting sea– And Simon gone away for days; Perhaps the words, dancing into shape 25 In neat and airy couplets, Imposed design on savage vastness And hemmed up the ragged edge of newness With thread from across the seas. So between the cradle 30 And the oven, with fresh brown Bread baking and infants babbling, I wrote, and Simon understood.
Art Inspires Art View this painting inspired by the life and literature of Anne Bradstreet.
DIRECTIONS: Using Shade’s poem and this painting, complete the “Sideby-Side Analysis” DUE: Friday (end the start of the hour) IMPORTANT NOTE: This is practice for your final Quarter 1 Common Core State Assessment (which will be in the next week or two)
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