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Essay Archive - Anne Bradstreet’s Expression of Anger
Anne Bradstreet’s Expression of Anger
During the Puritain era, poets wrote their literature in a very
religious sense. Almost all of the Puritain writers based their literature
on God. Anne Bradstreet, however, bases her poetry not on God, but on her
thoughts and feelings on the events of her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poem
An Author to Her Book explains Bradstreet’s anger towards her brother-in-
law for publishingher personal poetry without her permission. In this poem
Bradstreet uses a combination of a metaphore, a paradox, and othe....
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