... evident to me is "To My Dear and Loving Husband." She starts off by saying, "If ever two were one, then we. / If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; / If ever wife were happy in a man, / Compare with me ye women if you can" (Bradstreet 394). Her sentences seem complex and hard to understand, but once you reread them they ... are easily understood. She is simply saying, "If two people were ever in love, then it is us. / If a man was ever greatly loved my his wife, it is you; / If ever a woman was completely happy with her husband, / Compare me to that woman if at all possible." She m...

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... remember how much they missed old friends and life. Anne so missed England, but she praised the faith of the new colony. She wrote the poem The Four Ages of Man when she looked back over her life. She thought very highly of England's Queen Elizabeth. Once again Anne became ill which left her paralyzed in all her joints. Anne and ... to leave him a greater inheritance than wealth at her death, indication that he wished her to draw together all the good advice she had given him as a child and young man" which she did. Anne then came down with tuberculosis, and soon after her daughter Doro...

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... people who lived a reserved Puritan lifestyle. The first three lines of the poem reads "If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man." She is not only saying that they are one, but feels certain that their bond is stronger than any other married couple. She feels ... ...

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... poem, she openly discusses both her spiritual and physical love for him. Bradstreet writes: If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can. (1-4) This entire poem interacts negatively with the Puritan culture, considering the fact that husband and wife ... ...

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... on as well because of the love of God. And to understand were it came from, The history of puritanism's doctrine's belief was that all humans are sinners and that man cannot understand God. It first started in the church of England, also known as the Anglican church. They strongly dislike the catholic views of the obedience of the great Pope ... ...

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... I can no way repay" and "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold." Also she expresses the emotion of happiness when she writes, "If ever wife was happy in a man / Compare with me, ye woman, if you can." 4. Often newlyweds feel the same way about their partner as Anne Bradstreet feels about hers. It seems as if nothing matters to ... ...

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Anne Bradstreet was born in England. She married a man name Simon Bradstreet. Her and family were on the ship Arbella that was one of the first groups of settlers to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Her family was in ... ...

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