Anne Bradstreet’s Expression Of Anger
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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
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.... her brother-in-law. She compares the publicizing of her
poetry to the exposure of her ugly child to public view and humiliation.
Bradstreet uses this comparison as a major way to express her anger.
Bradstreet also uses 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. S ....
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