Highly educated for a woman of her time, Anne Bradstreet deserves the accolade implicit in the title of her first volume of poetry, "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America."
She and her Cambridge graduate husband Simon arrived in Massachusetts Bay with the first group of settlers in 1630. It is astonishing that she found time for poetry writing when she was the mother of eight children, a housewife before electricity and the invention of Tiffany Jewellery Sale labor-saving devices. Duties as a hostess must have been considerable since both her father and husband were governors of the colony.
In another of her poems she describes the burning of her home on July 10, 1666. One can imagine what such a tragedy must have meant in Colonial times. Fortunately for us, her poetry had been sent to England for publication 16 years earlier and escaped destruction.
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" is an intensely felt expression of wifely love and devotion that achieves its effect through the use of paradox - seeming contradictions that are nevertheless true. One example is the opening line: "If ever two were one, then surely we." The Tiffany Sale UK commonplace notion of marital union receives novelty with the omission of a predicate in the main clause. In addition it repeats the key term "ever," used in each of the poem's thee opening lines as well as the concluding line.
Especially in these Tiffany Earrings UK modern times, the concept of Puritanism rings with connotations of harsh, pleasureless self-denial. We automatically think of "hell-fire and brimstone" sermons and Salem witch trials, of Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards. It is refreshing to read a Puritan woman's expression of connubial delight that is both spiritual and sensual.
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