... knew how to be both a housewife and a writer; she did not let either one get to her head and outweigh the other. She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. Being a woman in the seventeenth century causes Bradstreet ... (5-6). She was stating that her writings will make the events of the past seem unimportant. In the third stanza, Bradstreet openly criticizes her work, "My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings; / All this to mend, alas, no art is able, / "Cause nature made it so irreparable" (16-...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... Draft Horse Emma Tan Robert Frost, author of The Draft Horse wrote this poem in the early to mid-1920's. He's been known for many acclaimed poems that pose complex philosophical, and societal questions about human nature, or ethical issues. A well-known example is his work in The Draft Horse: a narrative poem ... normalizing the alarming incident; displaying how unattached Frost is to this event. However, in comparing the second stanza to the third, the third one is broken into two sentences. This effect allows us to read the stanza in a 'matter of fact' tone, where there isn't a mom...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate