... to give the reader a general sense of the emotion felt by the narrator during this difficult situation. It is as we are standing next to the author while she is talking to her child. The punctuation helps dramatize certain thoughts being made. For example a comma in line 4 allows the reader to ... wise than true" (3). This added link of a friend publishing the work means that the "less wise" friend could have altered the name of the author. The use of a pseudonym for female authors has been common for several centuries, as women have not had the right to release their pieces freely. ......

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• Grade Level: High School

... , one can immediately see that this is a very personal poem, specified on an individual experience of Bradstreet. The fact that she is an author writing about an author, also that the poem whose theme is a book is itself part of a book or that looking at an deeper level, Bradstreet while writing ... the contrary, she puts them on the same level. Seen linearly this could again be seen as a manifesto, rebelling against her time. Rather that seeing "The Author To Her Book" as an anti-religious manifesto I tend to rather see it as depicting a circular process in which G"d (i.e. nature) create...

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• Grade Level: High School

In "The Author to Her Book," Anne Bradstreet explains how she felt when her poems were published without her knowledge and consent. She explains these feelings of resentment, humiliation, pride, affection, and commitment ... her "child" no matter what its faults are. Bradstreet uses all these poetic devises to communicate her strong feelings throughout this poem. She uses them to show a relationship between an author and her book and compares that relationship to that of a mother and her child. She relates to us feelings that parents may also have felt at times. She undresses herself ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Puritan style was a plain style- strong, simple, and logical. This new writing influence can be found in the works of William Bradford, who wrote OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, and Anne Bradstreet, author of HERE FOLLOW SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE, JULY 10, 1666. It was the Puritans who most powerfully influenced the course of American literature and the formation ... , and painting. For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irv...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... perceive it. By intertwining the idea of nature into her poem, while refereeing to it as something else, her abstract meanings can be taken at different levels. Bradstreet's poems "The Author to Her Book- (p270) and "The Prologue- (p 247-8) express her use of emotions within her work, while still applying them to plausible arguments. These poems also express her status of ... being a woman in a man's world. "The Author to Her Book- takes on a very feminine manner of describing her book as a child, which illustrates it in a clear and unique way. "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble br...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bradstreet - Edwards Essay The afterlife and what lies beyond are truly mysterious subjects. What truly lies beyond is a matter of faith and belief. Anne Bradstreet, author of "Upon the Burning of our House" and Jonathan Edwards who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" both share a veneration of God; however their view of the ... Lord are strikingly different. Subsequently, the varying religious views of Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards distinguish several literary elements in each author's works. Although Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet share a similar religious belief thei...

• Word Count: 417
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• Grade Level: High School

... is freely speaking her mind when it comes to what women can do during this time period. Another instance where Bradstreet spoke her mind like this presents itself in, The Author to Her Book. The specific quote is found within the first few lines of the poem and states, Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth didst ... blessing his name she is not angry with him, and has a sense of peace regarding this situation due to her faith in God and her religion. The next important woman author of this time is Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson was a Puritan woman captured during Ki...

• Word Count: 1702
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... present a challenge simply because she is writing, but also the substance that which she writes about presents tensions. With two specific examples coming from her works "The Prologue", and The "Author to Her book". Clearly tradition was saying one thing, but Bradstreet was indeed stepping out of the norms that were expected of her and challenging the Puritanical ideals. William Sheick ... her society, she was a devoted wife and mother which were both acceptable, however Bradstreet was also illegitimate. Bradstreet demonstrates that she has knowledge of this illegitimacy in her work "Th...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

In "The Author to Her Book," Anne Bradstreet explains how she felt when her poems were published without her knowledge and consent. She explains these feelings of resentment, humiliation, pride, affection, and commitment ... her "child" no matter what its faults are. Bradstreet uses all these poetic devises to communicate her strong feelings throughout this poem. She uses them to show a relationship between an author and her book and compares that relationship to that of a mother and her child. She relates to us feelings that parents may also have felt at times. She undresses herself ... ...

• Word Count: 459
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... effect of gender on her poems. Examples of the impact of her gender are reflected in poems such as "To My Dear and Loving Husband," "A Letter to Her Husband," "The Author to Her Book," and "By Night when Others Soundly Slept." The effects of gender are evident from the expectation of women's reputation during the time period of the 1600's; the ... the husband will be honored, received, and treasured by her. This poem shows any mother's wish for her children, as well as her deep womanly love towards her husband. "The Author to Her Book," shows more examples of motherly intuitions. Bradst...

• Word Count: 499
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• Grade Level: High School

... equality of women, and while Murray took greater risks with her literature, without the work of Bradstreet, there would have been greater residence in her attempts. The men in both author's lives, helped in their thirst for knowledge their freedom. Without the authors of the colonial period like Bradstreet and Murray, and their constant fight against the social norms that crippled ... ...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book, which he desir'd I would dry for him. It proved to be my old favorite author, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in Dutch, finely printed on good paper, with copper cuts, a dress better than I had ever seen it wear in its own language. I have since found that it ... ...

• Word Count: 908
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• Grade Level: High School

... -story writer, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. In theme, Poe places the human mind under investigation and probes insanity beneath the surface of normal existence. He was the first author in American literature to make the neurotic, the heroic figure, the protagonist, in his stories. Poe's most enduring tales are those of horror, the horror coming from the working of ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . Although this constitutive constraint does not foreclose the possibility of agency, it does locate agency as a reiterative or rearticulatory practice, immanent to power- (Bodies That Matter 15). The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. With that writer being a woman, the struggles were even greater. Bradstreet struggled with both embarrassment and pride toward her ... ...

• Word Count: 886
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . Although this constitutive constraint does not foreclose the possibility of agency, it does locate agency as a reiterative or rearticulatory practice, immanent to power- (Bodies That Matter 15). The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. With that writer being a woman, the struggles were even greater. Bradstreet struggled with both embarrassment and pride toward her ... ...

• Word Count: 887
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Anne Bradstreet was America's first real poet, but she is not only a poet she is an author. Anne was the kind of poet that who helped you find the good in everything. She writes poems about what is happening in real life. Most of the poems she ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of his published sermons, Taylor's Puritan beliefs are central in his physical and spiritual life" (Milieu). Contrasting from Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, "the Calvinist beliefs of this Puritan minister, scholar, and author guided his decisions that were also influenced by the political atmosphere of the times" (Milieu). It seemed to me that Bradstreet expresses her thoughts and feelings of God; however, she ... ...

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Anne Bradstreet uses one controlling metaphor throughout her poem. She personifies her book as her child. Though she considers it her child, her attitude towards it displays a wide range of negative emotions. These emotions include frustration, shame, and resentment. Bradstreet chooses to compare her piece of work to a child, because so many comparisons are befitting to a living thing. The first line in the poem shows her discontent toward the book she created. She reflects on the "ill-formed offspring of [her] feeble brain" and continues with her thoughts. Her book is then taken away from her...

• Word Count: 351
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• Grade Level: High School

... great. She uses her own personal experiences and religious beliefs in her writings. By her texts, I could tell that she was a very strong and charming woman. In the poem "The Author to Her Book", think she doubts her writing talent. She really wasn't poor so some people could not understand why she was writing, because in that day in time women ... ...

• Word Count: 230
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• Grade Level: High School