... they give the impression that they are challenging the Puritan ideals. In the fifth stanza Bradstreet states, I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, a poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, for such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, ... didst by my side remain (Bradstreet 119). Though this line seems harmless at first, that is simply due to the fact that Bradstreet did a far better job at hiding her sarcasm within her words. The offspring she speaks of is none other than the book she wrote, and she states...

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