Anne Bradstreet
(1612-72 A.D.)
American Literature
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Am Lit Do Now: 9-3-13
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Record two interesting facts about Anna
Bradstreet pg. 114. Then define the bold
terms on pg 115 (8: ignore “clarify
meaning”)
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Am Lit: DO NOW 9/4/13
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Define or give an example for:
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Personification
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Am Lit Homework 9/4/13
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Pg. 121 Questions 1-2, 4, 6
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Am Lit DO NOW 9/5/13
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Name one example of figurative language
from “To my Dear and Loving Husband.”
Also, what is the extended metaphor in
“Upon the Burning of My House”?
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Am Lit 9/5/13
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Today you will be able to name examples of
figurative language, be able to explain and
paraphrase INVERTED LANGUAGE
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We will review questions 1-2, continue to add
examples to our worksheet and determine the
answer to questions 4,6
MiniQUIZ tomorrow over figurative language
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English 10: DO NOW 9/6/13
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Turn in Do Nows from this week. (Staple,
name date “Do Now” clearly on every one)
Have out
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Anne Bradstreet textbook questions
Questions 1-2, 4, 6 Pg. 121
Figurative Language Worksheet
Post Quiz:
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Homework if not completed in class:
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Jonathon Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God” vocab worksheet PART A
only. (the fill in the blank section)
Read pg. 122 in textbook: write down two
interesting facts about Jonathon Edwards
Take notes over important terms on pg. 123
Anne Bradstreet (1612-72)
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The Author to her Book
By Night when Others
Soundly Slept
Contemplations
A Dialogue between Old
England and New
The Flesh and the Spirit
The Four Ages of Man
In Reference to her
Children, 23 June 1659
Prologue
To My Dear and Loving
Husband
Biography
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Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 to a
nonconformist former soldier of Queen
Elizabeth, Thomas Dudley, who managed the
affairs of the Earl of Lincoln.
In 1630 Dudley sailed with his family for
America with the Massachusetts Bay Company.
Also sailing was his associate and son-in-law,
Simon Bradstreet. At 25, he had married Anne
Dudley, 16, his childhood sweetheart. Anne had
been well tutored in literature and history in
Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, English.
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Biography
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Anne's identity is primarily linked to her prominent
father and husband, both governors of
Massachusetts who left portraits and numerous
records.
Though she appreciated their love and protection,
any woman who sought to use her wit, charm, or
intelligence in the community at large found herself
ridiculed, banished, or executed by the Colony's
powerful group of male leaders.
"Her domain was to be domestic, separated from
the linked affairs of church and state, even
"deriving her ideas of God from the
contemplations of her husband's excellencies,"
according to one document
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Biography
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This situation was surely made painfully clear to her in
the fate of her friend Anne Hutchinson, also intelligent,
educated, of a prosperous family and deeply religious.
The mother of 14 children and a dynamic speaker,
Hutchinson held prayer meetings where women
debated religious and ethical ideas.
Her belief that the Holy Spirit dwells within a justified
person and so is not based on the good works
necessary for admission to the church was considered
heretical; she was labelled as Jezebel and banished,
eventually slain in an Indian attack in New York.
Therefore, Anne Bradstreet was not anxious to publish
her poetry and especially kept her more personal works
private.
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General Approaches to Bradstreet's’ Poems
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The meter of Anne Bradstreet’s poems are
usually iambic pentameter with key variations in
rhythm and syntax. Ordinarily any variation from
the norm set up points to special rhetorical
effect or emphasis.
She often includes annotated meanings of
words to clarify meanings, and those different
meanings together has created complex
feelings and ideas.
Her poems are also filled with imagery, followed
with sustained parallels. Metaphysical conceits
could also be found in her poems.
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General Approaches to Bradstreet’s Poems
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Some of her poems are filled with irony and
male Puritan cultural context, along with the
suspect of conventionally religious additions
and retractions.
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Her poems are also filled with
 Self-effacing "apology" (art claiming
artlessness), which gradually becomes
more authoritative poetic persona.
questioning God)
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General Approaches to Bradstreet’s Poems
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Pride in ability to instruct and experience
life
Distaste for dualism and hierarchy;
preference for balance
Attachment to nature and the body (even
Humor and irony which allow her to say
the things that are not to be said
Self-exploration through historic and
mythic heroines
Dwelling on the domestic as authoritative
Language and imagery are often direct,
and relatively simple
Photo Gallery
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References
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RPO Editors, Department of English, and UTO.
Representative Poetry Online. 05 Oct. 2004
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem208.htm
Ann Woodlief. Anne Bradstreet. 05 Oct. 2004
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/bradbio.htm
Ann Woodlief. Study Texts on Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry
05 Oct. 2004 http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/
Bradstreet/bradread.htm
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