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Anne Bradstreet�s Expression Of Anger - Term Papers

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 other literary
devices to express her anger.

Bradstreet expresses her anger mostly through the extended
metaphore which flows throughout the poem. This extended metaphore
compares Bradstreet�s ...

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a paradox to express her frustration, �I
washed thy face, but more defects I saw�(13). Bradstreet compares washing
the face of her child to trying to erase her own problems. With this
paradox, Bradstreet expresses her failing efforts to make her problems
wash away. She expresses her desperation about her inability to get her
life back to how it was.

Bradstreet expresses her anger through paradoxs, metaphores, and
other literary devices in An Author to Her Book. She makes her anger and
frustration clear throughout the poem. Anne Bradstreet makes her anger
clear through her powerful literary ...

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Added: 9/17/2006 10:47:42 AM
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 288
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