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Bradstreet was wrong

            The time was the seventeenth century, and the values were Puritan. Anne Bradstreet was born and married into prestige and political connections. This led to her rise as an all powerful and classical poet. One of the very first in American culture, Bradstreet penned many a missive on taboos of her time including questioning God in a God fearing society. However, an ideal that was common with her religious culture and in turn permeated her writing was female subservience to men. This ideal is a direct antithesis to today's culture of young women and the cultures of times passed.
             Woman's submission to man has been proven to be a theory that is uneducated, obsolete and hypocritical. To make reference to another human being as being less then another with the only basis being gender is scientifically inadequate. If this concept were true would a woman be able to hold the same position as a man? The answer is a resounding no. There would be no female senators, governors, teachers or world leaders because they would not be able to handle the stress without a man's guidance to lead them. The antiquation of female submission is also obvious. With the fiscal options allotted to many families today a woman often wears the proverbial pants in the family and works as much if not more than her husband (If indeed she is married). The hypocrisy is almost laughable, and it has been demonstrated throughout history. A woman is expected on numerous occasions to do whatever a man tells her to do at the time he asks her to do so. For example in 1940's America at the time of World War II, many men were called away to battle. With no man there to hold .
             down the household, who was to earn a living and manage affairs? The answer is the wives and mothers. Thus, there is the beginning of a new found independence or a wake up call among women. .
             Many generations have fought for a voice in our history. From Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the rights of women to the works of Gloria Steinem, Anne Bradstreet has been contested indirectly.


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1. Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue"

Bradstreet's upbringing had a vast amount to do with the way she was educated. ... In the fifth stanza, the anger of Bradstreet is clearly displayed in the lines, 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; They"ll say it's stol"n, or else it was by chance" (26-30) Bradstreet is saying that she will prove everyone that thinks she cannot write that they are wrong and being a woman does not mean she is lucky when she writes something good or t...

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

2. The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet

Bradstreet's "The Prologue," portrays the struggles of being a woman in a Puritan society. ... /A Poet's Pen all scorn I should thus wrong,/For such despite they cast on female wits.... There are reasons why Anne Bradstreet wrote "The Prologue." I believe that Anne Bradstreet's intentions were to inform and speak her mind. While reading Bradstreet's "Prologue," one may first notice its careful structure. ...

  • Word Count: 926
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Anne Bradstreet and the Invisible Puritan Women

Anne Bradstreet was the first published female poet. ... Some, like Bradstreet, were conflicted. ... (Bradstreet). ... She says: "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"" (Bradstreet). ... This pleading request is further echoed in the last stanza of Bradstreet's poem. ...

  • Word Count: 610
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Pushing Societal Boundaries

Bradstreet is knowingly aware that she is doing something that is out of the norm. ... The life of Bradstreet seemed to reflect the values of her society, she was a devoted wife and mother which were both acceptable, however Bradstreet was also illegitimate. ... In this work of Bradstreet's she is relating her poetry writing to that of a child. ... In these lines Bradstreet admits that she had no help with writing the poem, and at the same time admits that she is wrong in doing so and that it is illegitimate. ... It is clear that Bradstreet was exceeding the boundaries set before her ...

  • Word Count: 1169
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Has Bibliography

5. Literature and Gender in the New Colonies

Both Murray and Bradstreet were alike in having been privy to a good education. ... Nay Masculines, you have thus tax'd us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. (Bradstreet 44) These lines betray the subtle sarcasm apparent in several of Bradstreet's poems. ... A Poet's Pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits. ... This kind of tongue-in-cheek method of using male gender roles in favor of feminism is reminiscent of Bradstreet's "Preheminence in each, and all is yours,/ Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours"...

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

6. Women Who Defied Restrictions

Bradstreet was born in England in 1612 to a fairly wealthy family. ... Bradstreet married at age 16 to a man by the name of Simon Bradstreet, and came to America 2 years later where she lived a difficult life. ... 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, they'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance (Bradstreet 111). ... In The Prologue, Bradstreet also states tha...

  • Word Count: 1702
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Robert Frost

Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson are both respected women poets in their own rights. ... Dickinson and Bradstreet, however, wrote during different periods, where their styles greatly differed. During the period in which Bradstreet published her works, males were the driving forces in literature. ... Stanza five of the same poem continues her argument of male stereotyping of women, stating: "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...

  • Word Count: 1953
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Commentary The Author to Her B

The poem being analyzed: The Author To Her Book was written by poet Anne Bradstreet in approximately 1672. It was published in her anthology The Works of Anne Bradstreet likely after her death. ... Bradstreet could in fact be role-playing another author as the narrator. ... As if something wrong with the "creator" tainted the offspring from her "feeble brain" (1). ... Bradstreet shows that just as a child is part of who you are the similar can be said for a piece of writing. ...

  • Word Count: 2494
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Anne Bradstreet

As an original resident of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Anne Bradstreet was a remarkable woman, admired highly by her family and community. Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612, to a nonconformist soldier of Queen Elizabeth. ... Thomas and Dorothy Dudley, her parents, and her husband, Simon Bradstreet, were also along on this great migration. ... When she turned sixteen, she married Simon Bradstreet, the son of a Puritan minister. ... Nay, masculines, you have taxed us long; But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. ...

  • Word Count: 1616
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

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