Anne Bradstreet To My Dear Loving Husband Analysis

After almost four decades ago Anne Bradstreet wrote her two now famous poems “To My Dear Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House”. Today, we recognize these poems as one of the first women’s writing to be published. Although today we admire Anne Bradstreet’s poems four decades ago people did not have the same opinion. With the Puritans strongly disapproving of women writers think that at one point the Puritan community found Anne Bradstreet’s poems praise worthy because in her poems and writing she shows over and over how she loves her husband and how she loves God even after he was responsible for burning down her house and all of her possessions. Puritans would give Anne Bradstreet’s poems praise for example, “I prize thy love

more than whole mines of gold” (line 50). This just goes to show that no matter how much money someone offers her she will still take her husband over it. Snice the Puritans are Christian and they think that true love between a man and a women is unbreakable they can relate to Anne Bradstreet because they feel the same way about love. Another example why the Puritans would admire Anne Bradstreet’s poems is, “The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above” (Line 54-55). Although God took everything Anne ever loved on Earth she knows that this is only temporary and the real treasure lays above. The Puritans would encourage this because in Johnathan Edwards’s speech he is constantly telling the people that you need to love God and become baptized. Even though the Puritans highly disapprove of women writes I feel that because Anne Bradstreet has the same beliefs as them I feel they would accept her writings.
In the 18th century the average life expectancy was around forty years old, if people knew how short of time they had to live in the 18th century I feel that they would take Jonathan Edwards speech more to the heart and followed what he said on how to build a better relationship with God. If the awareness of the fragility of life during Johnathan Edwards’s speech people would know that they have a short time on this Earth and that life is very delicate and you should not take your life for granted. An example on how people do not understand how fragile life is, “we find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; thus it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by; thus easy is it for God when he pleases to cast his enemies down to hell....” (Line 1-3). Johnathan Edwards is basically saying that you need to make the most of life and stop pushing God out of your daily life because you are walking on thin ice. Also Edwards explains how it is easy for us to crush a women and that God has the equivalent power to do the same to us just as we have over the worm. Another example is, “you will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance...” (Lines 80-83). Edwards is saying is already short in the 18th century so life it in a way God would want you because if you do not you will be suffering for eternity. So why not be a servant of God for the short amount of time you have on Earth and live in heaven when you die rather than live a life full of sin and perish in Hell. I feel if people understood more that they do not have a long time on Earth, they would come to their senses and take notice of what Johnathan Edwards is trying to say.
Thomas Jefferson one of our Founding Fathers and one of the most important people that helped found our country stated in the Declaration of Independence “All men are created equal”.

At the time this was written this statement only applied to land owning white males. Over time this statement has slowly changed into everyone is created equal. For instance during the Civil Rights Movement African Americans were treated differently they were not the treated the same way as whites, “whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends , it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it...” (Lines 11-12). Not as much of the people had to alter the government but the government had to alter the constitution to give equal rights to all of the U.S. citizens not just whites. How the statement “All me created equal” has stayed the same is you always get those white supremacist who think that the only clean race and needs to be treated differently than other races. “He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts” (Line 33). Although this is talking about how King George III abused his power over the colonies it also shows how he is selfish. This kind of relates to how the white racist are

selfish.