/My garments are not silk nor gold,/nor such like trash which Earth doth hold,/but Royal Robes I shall have on,/More glorious than the glist'ring Sun./My Crown not Diamonds, Pearls, and gold,/but such as Angels' heads infold./the City where I hope to Continue Reading...
The Flesh attempts to tempt her sister, the Spirit, with physical wealth and beauty. She argues that meditation alone is not enough to live on, and that earth cannot be divorced from the spirit. Bradstreet however demonstrates that there is a basic Continue Reading...
" This allusion to the Garden of Eden reminds the reader of how they should be suspicious of their own, base instincts, for that is how human beings fell in the garden -- by being disobedient and acting upon their base desires. Instead, they must app Continue Reading...
Anne Bradstreet: To My Dear and Loving HusbandAnne Bradstreet\\\'s poem To My Dear and Loving Husband is a simple yet very deep and very beautiful expression of love from a woman to a man, a wife to a husband, a lover to a lover. It exudes devotion t Continue Reading...
