Analysis Of World Hath End By Anne Bradstreet

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This poem expresses the fear Bradstreet is living as she articulates that she is likely to die during childbearing. Since back in the day there was no technology to help with the childbirth process women would have a shorter life because dying while giving birth was common. Anne Bradstreet dedicates this poem to her husband. Women in colonial New England would live less time than man since the rate of death was higher due to childbearing. Bradstreet commences her poem expressing that everything in this world has an end. (1)”All things within this fading world hath end”. She recognizes that every happy moment comes along with a bad moment. In Genesis 3:16 God said women would have pain during childbirth.(5)”The sentence past is most irrevocable” In that verse she refers to the punishment God gave to Eve for eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. Anne acknowledged that pain during childbearing was destiny but she was still angered to the fact that she would be separated from the children and her husband. …show more content…

(13-14) “And if I see not half my dayes that´s due, What nature would, God grant to yours and you”. Bradstreet indicates that she would like that any unpleasant memory to die with her. (15-16) “The many faults that well you know I have, Let be interr´d in my oblivious grave”. She points out how she would like to be remembered, by telling her husband to commemorate any worth or virtue she has. (17-18) “If any worth or virtue were in me, Let that live freshly in thy memory”. The author also asks her husband to look out for the children as she refers to them as her “remains” since they are what are left of her on this

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