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Anne Bradstreet!

Anne Bradstreet!. 1612 – 1672. Father was John Dudley, a nonconformist soldier 1630, sailed with family to America His coworker, Simon Bradstreet, married Anne when she was 16 and he was 25 Anne was well tutored in literature, history, Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and English.

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Anne Bradstreet!

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  1. Anne Bradstreet! 1612 – 1672

  2. Father was John Dudley, a nonconformist soldier • 1630, sailed with family to America • His coworker, Simon Bradstreet, married Anne when she was 16 and he was 25 • Anne was well tutored in literature, history, Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and English.

  3. In her memoirs, she wrote of America: "I found a new world and new manners at which my heart rose [up in protest.]“ • Bother her father and husband were governors of Massachusetts, allowing her some luxury of lifestyle. • Though her men had social prominence, "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."

  4. Her husband, in quest for more land and power, constantly moved them to the edges of the dangerous frontier. • Through this dangerous life, Anne and Simon had 8 children, all of whom lived through childhood, which was rare enough in mire populous areas. • Anne herself was frequently ill and constantly expected death, but survived to be 60 years old.

  5. Ann Hutchinson • A Friend of Ann – intelligent, well educated • Mother of 14 children • Debated religious and ethical ideas with other women in the community • She believed good works not necessary to go to heaven • Banished from the colony and killed by Indians

  6. Her later poetry was published posthumously, and contained a much more well-developed poetic voice. • Her Apologies, especially, dripped with sarcasm in her response to the male opinion of women in society. • Anne was a radically feminist poet, challenging the banishing of women to the private sphere of life and questioning the idea of an unforgiving Puritan God.

  7. Because of the tendency of the Puritans to ostracize female intellectuals, Anne was hesitant to publish any of her poetry. • Her brother took some of her early poems to England (legendarily against her will) and published them as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America when she was 38. It sold very well.

  8. Anne was viewed as an intriguingly feminist writer, merging her sometimes overtly sexual imagery with the concepts of both her love for God and for her husband and family. • She examined the paradoxical reconciliation of a woman in the Puritanically repressive roles carnal love for her husband and her more stately and respectable relationship with God and the church. • This led to a more in-depth examination by feminist critics in the mid-20th century of her individualist take on more traditional doctrine.

  9. Criticism • Since she stuck to this traditionally accepted courtly style, her Tenth Muse was well-acclaimed among critical circles.

  10. Literary Terms • Extended metaphors: Detailed and complex metaphors that extend over a long section of a poem - Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” • Inversion:In grammar, a reversal of normal word order, especially the placement of a verb ahead of the subject (subject-verb inversion). • Ex – “In silent night when rest I took” • "Not in the legions • Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned • In ills to top Macbeth." • (William Shakespeare, Macbeth) • "Inversion is so common in English prose that it may be said to be quite as much in accordance with the genius of the language as any other figure; indeed, in many cases it may well be doubted whether there is any real inversion at all. Thus it may be quite as much the natural order to say, 'Blessed are the pure in heart,' as to say, 'The pure in heart are blessed.'" • (James De Mille, The Elements of Rhetoric, 1878) • "Half an hour later came another inquiry as to tugs. Later came a message from the Irene, telling of the lifting of the fog." • (The New York Times, April 7, 1911) • "There's a lady wants to see you. Miss Peters her name is." • (P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, 1915) • "In subject-dependent inversion the subject occurs in postponed position while some other dependent of the verb is preposed. A considerable range of elements may invert with the subject in this way . . . . In the great majority of cases the preposed element is a complement, usually of the verb be." • (Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, 2002) • "The man who first saw that it was possible to found a European empire on the ruins of the Mogul monarchy was Dupleix." • (Thomas Macaulay) • "[T]ypical verbs do not themselves permit inversion, but rather require what is traditionally called do-support (i.e. have inverted forms which require the use of the dummy auxiliary do): cf. • (a) * Intends he to come? • (b) Does he intend to come? • (c) *Saw you the mayor? • (d) Did you see the mayor? • (e) *Plays he the piano? • (f) *Does he play the piano? • (Andrew Radford, Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997) • "Also arrested were eight other suspects who allegedly worked secretly for ETA while maintaining the appearance of normal lives, Rubalcaba said at a nationally-televised news conference in Madrid." • (Al Goodman, "Nine ETA Bombing Suspects Arrested," CNN.com, July 22, 2008) • Simple Sentence • Compound Sentence • Complex Sentence • Sentence Types • Declarative Sentence • Interrogative Sentence • Imperative Sentence • Related Articles • "to"-infinitive - definition and examples of full infinitives in English gr... • subject - definition and examples of subjects in English grammar • modal - definition and examples of modal verbs in English grammar • series - definition and examples of the series in English grammar • reference grammar - definition and examples of reference grammar in English • Richard Nordquist • Richard Nordquist • Grammar & Composition Guide • Sign up for My Newsletter • Headlines • Forum • Advertisement • See More About • grammatical and rhetorical terms In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." • (J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit, 1937)

  11. Special thank you to “Biography of Anne Bradstreet” by Ann Woodlief located at http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/bradbio.htm.

  12. “Even as highly respected a man as Governor John Winthrop believed women could not bear intellectual rigor without irreparable harm.” • “Women simply did not do what Bradstreet did in the seveenth century unless there was something ‘wrong’ with them”

  13. In your group read the poem Verses upon the Burning of our House and individually rewrite the versus in your own words. • Do the same thing for “An Author to Her Book” • http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/bradpoems.htm

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