Anne Bradstreet Meaning

Next, let's take a look at the meaning behind Anne Bradstreet's poem. The poem begins with Anne talking about how everything in this life will fade, and no matter how good your friends are, death will still come. In the next two lines (6-7) she is talking about how inevitable death is. The next line she says “How soon, my dear, death may my steps attend.” She goes onto say that soon you may loose your friend, but it is out of love that I write this to you. In this poem, Anne is writing to her husband, before she goes into labor with one of her children. Anne is writing this, because she may die in labor. She goes on to say, that if she doesn't see half the days that are due in her life, she prays that God will add those days onto her husband's

When you first take a look at the poster, you will notice that it is very neatly laid out, and has a structure to it. The poem has a very predictable rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and it has a uniform shape throughout. That is why we decided to glue all of the pictures in a very consistent and organized lay out. Next is the reason that we chose the pictures that we did. We started with some pictures of friends, and with a picture of a dead body. This shows the first part of the poem, that no matter how strong your friends are, death will still come. Next we have a picture of someone running, and a watch, because she is talking about how death may be soon to come. Then we have a picture of a knot, and a picture of darkness. This shows how tight they are, and how when the knot is untied, which is when she dies, that she will be nothing just like the picture. Next we have a picture of a runner on a podium, which shows virtue and a man that look like her is remembering something, which is what she wants her husband to remember, all of the good things about her. Next we have pictures of little children, that she wants her husband to look after. Then there is a picture of a runner who is protected through the rain and the lightning, and that is what she told her husband to do for her children if she passes. That is what our poster represents about the