Anna Bradstreet’s poetry
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Poems by Anna Bradstreet
3. Conclusion
Introduction安娜达力Bradstreet通常被称为第一位诗人之意。她出生在1612年在英格兰和Northamtop度过她的童年在Tattershall城堡,在那里她四周有大量的书籍和比较奢侈。她的观点在人生的大多是受到父亲的清教徒的位置与周围的环境。
安妮是一座非常不健康的孩子和她差点死于天花当她16岁。她嫁给了我的恢复后Bradstreet西门,伯爵的转变。不久,她与她的丈夫和家人搬到美国。这趟旅行太困难,首先在美国生活,但也不是很容易,这是第一次安妮Bradstreet见到真正的所有生命之表现。家庭过去住在剑桥在她的第一个孩子出生后,后来在1644年,他们搬到了北安多佛,这就成了她家吃剩下的生命。
安娜已经造就了八个孩子,在秩序,守在家里照顾她的丈夫,他巡抚的殖民地,尽管所有这些职责她发现时间写诗。
安娜Bradstreet诗
起初她写诗为她自己满意。她喜欢生活在新的世界,她很高兴和她的朋友和家人。她很喜欢法国诗人杜甫Bartas和她的大部分诗写在他这一时期的影响。安娜的姐夫没有她的知识收集安娜的前15诗歌和出版他们在标题"最近十姐出现在美国,或Severall诗歌、编制各种各样的智慧和学习,充满了喜悦由一个Gentlewoman…在那些部份”。大多数评论家说这些诗很乏味,不显示出真正的Bradstreet的天赋。“经常木线条,并迫使她早期的诗的韵律揭示Bradstreet严峻的决心,她就能写证明高雅气派的男性诗人,但她建立了深层的情感显然不是从事这个项目。”(爱茉莉,1982。)
她的后期作品有更深的,我们看到,她真的住在她的诗。她表现出她自己的情感和她看自己的世界。这使她的诗更接近读者。她的实际经验的妻子、母亲和一个清教徒的女人的社会后期作品被反映在她的人。这样的诗的例子是“我亲爱的,亲爱的丈夫”、“出生之前一个孩子”和“作者她的书”。安娜爱她的丈夫,他非常忠诚不只是她的生活,她的诗。她写爱情诗当他外出旅行和工作,他在家就站在她附近。丈夫和妻子之间的爱并不是一个频繁的清教徒社会现象,因为它远离完全献身于神。那么,安娜跟从叫她的心更重要的是对我的头脑比执行所有的习俗的清教徒的教堂。这首诗“亲爱的,亲爱的丈夫”是用爱填满的妻子快乐:
如果有两个是一个,然后我们一定。
要是男人的妻子被爱,那么你;
如果曾经在一个男人的妻子很高兴,
跟我比你们女人,如果可以的话。
“我亲爱的,亲爱的丈夫“安娜Bradstreet使用传统的押韵的结束称为韵文。它是一种声韵当地电线结束于类似的声音。重复短语“如果曾经”和“爱”这首诗的节奏,他们就能创造一个印象的缓慢浪漫的歌曲。
“作者她的书“是她的另一个美丽的诗,有一个相当困难的结构。安娜吸引图片日常生活的一个女人在社会和家庭生活的清教徒参考。具体的帮助下Bradstreet诗押韵方案反映了文学安娜。惯例10个音节在每一行押韵和AA,BB帮助作者创造的具体氛围中渗透的读者。这首诗没有《圣经》引文,这是很不寻常的此时,作为清教徒的观点很强壮。它也不是很好,通常是一个诗人的女人。根据严格的清教徒风俗女人一定要致力于她的丈夫和孩子,她不能参加社会生活。
但这是相当困难的说,安娜不是一个真正的代表她的社会。她的一些诗是致力于清教社会主题平常。她描述了如何在一个诗家庭的房子被烧毁。另一个她的诗那个叫做“出生之前一个孩子”的基础上,介绍了典型的情况。它充满了作者的思想在她面前可能诞生的死亡,因为她的孩子。
在这个世界上所有的东西已经结束逝去,
逆境也还是我们的欢乐参加;
他没有关系那么坚强,没有朋友如此珍贵而温馨,
但是死亡的分离吹肯定会见到。
这首诗里,她使用标准的结束这首诗押韵帮助声音和自然音乐。在她的诗安娜Bradstreet强调诗歌声音表达她的主题。
结论
美国文学论文安娜Bradstreet称作第一的美国诗人。她和她的家人搬到美国,立刻面临严格的,有时不公平的习俗和观点清教徒的教堂。作为社会成员很难写诗和安娜来享有与男子平等的。她经常被批评她的邻居,因为她的写作行为和状态。安娜Bradstreet的文学遗产给我们一个可能性的那个时期的文献进行统计与分析。
Anna Dudley Bradstreet is often called the first poet of America. She was born in Northamtop in England in 1612 and spent her childhood at Tattershall Castle, where she was surrounded by numerous books and comparative luxury. Her views on the life were mostly influenced by her father’s position and Puritan surrounding.
Anne was a very unhealthy child and she almost died from smallpox when she was 16 years old. After the recovering she married Simon Bradstreet, a protege of the Earl’s. Soon she with her husband and family moved to America. The trip was difficult and life in America at first wasn’t very easy too but it was the first time Anne Bradstreet saw the real life in all its manifestations. The family used to live in Cambridge where her first son was born, then in 1644 they moved to North Andover, which became her home for the rest of the life.
Anna had to bring up eight children, keep the house in order and take care of her husband, who was the governor of the colony and in spite of all these duties she found time to write poems.
Poems by Anna Bradstreet
At first she wrote poems for her own satisfaction. She admired life in the New World, she was happy with her friends and family. She was fond of French poet Du Bartas and most of her poems of this period were written under his influence. Anna’s brother-in-law without her knowledge collected Anna’s first 15 poems and published them under the title “The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America, Or Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of delight… By a Gentlewoman in those parts”. Most critics say that these poems were dull and don’t show real Bradstreet’s talent. “The often wooden lines and forced rhymes of her early poems reveal Bradstreet’s grim determination to prove that she could write in the lofty style of the established male poets, but her deeper emotions are obviously not engaged in the project.” (Amore, 1982.)
Her later works are much deeper, we see that she really live in her poems. She reflects her own feelings and her own sight of the world. This makes her poems much closer to readers. Her actual experience of wife, mother and woman of a Puritan society that is reflected in her later works captivates people. The examples of such poems are “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” and “The Author to Her Book”. Anna loved her husband very much and so devoted him not just her life but also her poems. She wrote love poems when he was away on work trips and when he was at home near her. The love between husband and wife was not a frequent phenomenon in the Puritan society, because it kept away from full devotion to the God. So, Anna followed the call of her heart that is to my mind more important than to follow all the customs of the Puritan church. The poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is filled in with love of a happy wife:
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
In “To My Dear and Loving Husband” Anna Bradstreet uses traditional rhyme of that time called end rhyme. It’s a type of rhymes where lines end in similar sounds. Repeated phrases “if ever” and “love” are the rhythm of the poem and they create an impression of slow romantic song.
“The Author to Her Book” is her another beautiful poem that has a rather difficult structure. Anna draws the picture of everyday life of a woman in Puritan society and references domesticity. With the help of specific rhyme scheme Anna Bradstreet’s poem reflects literary conventions of the time. Ten syllables in every line and an AA BB rhyming help the author to create the specific atmosphere where penetrates the reader. The poem doesn’t have biblical references and it was very unusual for those times, as Puritan religious views were very strong. It also was not very usual and good that woman was a poetess. According to strict Puritan customs the woman must devote herself to her husband and children and she mustn’t take part in social life.
But it’s rather difficult to say that Anna was not a real representative of her society. Some of her poems are dedicated to themes usual in Puritan society. In one poem she describes how the family’s house burned down. Another her poem that is called “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” and describes typical situation. It’s full of thoughts of the author before her possible death because of the birth of her child:
All things within this fading world hath end,
Adversity doth still our joys attend;
No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet,
But with death’s parting blow are sure to meet.
In this poem she uses standard end rhyme that helps the poem to sound naturally and musically. In her poems Anna Bradstreet emphasize poetic sound to express her themes.
Conclusion
Anna Bradstreet is called the first American poet. She moved to America with her family and immediately faced with strict and sometimes unfair customs and views of Puritan church. Being the member of this society it was difficult for Anna to write poems and be equal with men. Very often she was judged and criticized by her neighbors because of her writing activity and status. Anna Bradstreet’s literary heritage gives us a possibility to analyze the literature of that period.
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