poems response

Briana Weems
Poems Responses
7-8th period
Anne Bradstreet is a writer of many poems. She is the first female poet and made a lot of history. One thing that makes her such a famous poet is that she was a puritan and puritans didn’t like poetry. Another thing that makes her a famous poem is because she was a puritan and she never really uses her religious beliefs in her poems. She has wrote many poems and among all her many treasures are “The Author to Her Book” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. The first poem is about how a woman’s friend betrays her and steals her idea and publishes it. But the idea doesn’t come out like how the author intentionally wanted so she tries to fix it, but when she fixes it, it only comes out worse. In the second poem it talks about a woman who is deeply in love with her husband that she even believes when they die, they will still be together. While these two poems are about two different things, they are alike in a lot of similar ways.
In both poems Bradstreet uses a lot of similes. In “The Author to Her Book” she compares her thoughts to offspring. She trying to show how much her ideas mean to her and how precious they are to her, like a child. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she compares her love for her lover to rivers. She says that it is more than any river can quench. She is trying to represent how much she loves him and how deep it is. Using similes makes the reader think and wonder why she compared her love or writings to certain things.
In both poems Bradstreet also uses rhyming words at the end of her sentences. She uses words like “true and view, trudge and judge, and small and call”, in “The Author to Her Book”. And in “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she uses rhyming words like “we and thee, man and can, repay and pray”. Words like these make her known as a well known writer and famous for her poems ending like that. Each time she rhymes it gives her poems a special effect and makes the reader think twice about what she is reading.
In both poems Bradstreet has deep meanings but it takes some thinking to figure it out. In “The Author to Her Book” she talks about how her friends stole an idea from her and published and made it their own. She talks about how it’s not right because they can’t express her emotions and thoughts like she can but when she tries to and fix it only comes out worse. She says all of this but doesn’t come right out and directly say it. For instance she calls her idea her offspring. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she talks about her love for her husband. How she loves him so much and how they are meant to be. Also how powerful and strong their love is. In this poem as well she doesn’t directly come out and say this. She compares their love to riches and how it’s worth more than all the riches from the east.
In both of these poems Anne Bradstreet has deep meanings. She goes deeper and she wants you to think about what she’s talking about instead of just putting out there. She goes for a deeper meaning each time she writes and she uses different types of diction, details, and syntax. Anne Bradstreet puts her heart into each poem she writes and it shows in her writings.