Question

explain the importance of Bradstreet, including her confirmation of her belief in the afterlife in her poetry.

Answer 1

Answer:

Anne Bradstreet was a renowned British writer and poetess. She was recognized as a New World Poet. Her style of poetry was unique, and mostly tells about Puritan life, faith and motherhood.

Explanation:

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was born in Northampton, England but came to live in America during the Massachusetts Bay Colony founding in 1630. She is said to be the first Puritan American figure in literature, and is well-regarded for her large poetry corpus and her posthumously published writings.

She struggled with the concepts of pleasure, family life and the worldly attachments as a woman, in contrast to her Puritan beliefs related to God, heaven, death and immortality.

There is confirmation of her beliefs in salvation and afterlife in her poems. As she wrote in her poem Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632:

O Bubble blast, how long can'st last?

That always art a breaking,

No sooner blown, but dead and gone,

Ev'n as a word that's speaking.

O whil'st I live, this grace me give,

I doing good may be,

Then death's arrest I shall count best,

because it's thy decree.

Here, she expressed the popular Puritan concern on how short life is, death and salvation.

In another of her poems, Contemplations, she expresses her desire to transcend and live forever, that is, her desire for eternal life:

Then higher on the glistering Sun I gaz'd

Whose beams was shaded by the leavie Tree,

The more I look'd, the more I grew amaz'd

And softly said, what glory's like to thee?

Soul of this world, this Universes Eye,

No wonder, some made thee a Deity:

Had I not better known, (alas) the same had I.

Answer 2

In her poetry, bradstreet often use words that able to make the readers feel her true expression toward an event or occurence
Bradstreet managed to express the feelings of comfort that she managed to find when she built her relation with higher power (God) during her childbirth. She make many readers belief the existence of God and conver them to the belief of Puritanism

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