Anne Bradstreet and Adrienne Rich are two of the most important female poets in the American literature, their writing sharing some common features as well. Their poetry seems to be made according to Adrienne Rich's definition of poetry: " I believe that poems are made of words and the b...

As a female in a highly patriarchal society, Anne Bradstreet uses the reverse psychology technique to prove the point of her belief of unfair and unequal treatment of women in her community. Women who wrote stepped outside their appropria...