Love and Loss How Anne Did Bare

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“Compare with me, ye women, if you can”(141 4) here Anne speaks of her love as being somewhat unique because she believes that there is no love greater then the one she shares with her husband. However, what was not known at the time was Anne’s own humility for she thought the only eyes to read these love letters were her family’s, not the colonies’. Also, she assures them and the reader of her growing cares and fears that are brewing within her.

We see Anne Bradstreet, as a mother and a wife, two easily relatable and realistic roles of a woman. She knows that God is good, and He takes and gives as He pleases, but yet she still yearns for what she had; and she misses the material things she once possessed. Everything in this world is his, and at his own discretion he will take and give. She shares with the reader every ounce of emotion. Anne tells the reader that how can she be so materialistic, God gives and he takes away. During this time this public admiration was looked down upon, no one though it proper to publicly announce ones feelings like Anne had done. Like a mother bird who tends her chicks, she feels discouraged and worried when its time for them to fly away on their own. She realizes she must let go, and is willing to take that chance because it is the only choice she has. She then goes on to claim that she would do anything and give up anything if she could just be with her husband right now:

“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East doth hold. We all suffer from conflict similar to that of Anne Bradstreet, it is just that her choosing to write it down made her seem as if she were evil and immoral. Her poems prospered in Europe, simply because it was not a land of conformists who feared individuality. Almost any women can relate simply because they have felt or know they will eventually feel the same for their own birds.

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Approximate Word count = 1604
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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