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Anne Bradstreet Notes

* She was born in 1612 and died 1672

* Bradstreet grew up in England

* She was educated by her father, Thomas Dudley

* She traveled to Massachusetts colony when she was eighteen with her husband Simon

* Her parents also joined the Puritan community there

* Her brother-in-law published her poems, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up, without her knowing

* Her works explore her love for her husband, her sadness at the death of her parents and other family members, and her struggle to accept as God's will the losses she suffered.

Inversion-Changing the usual order of words

Upon the Burning of Our House

1. What caused the house to burn down?

2. What possessions did she lose?

3. Why did God build her house and then burn it down?

To My Dear and Loving Husband

1. Why was the last line "That when we live no more, we may live ever"

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2. She views her items as things that god had given her and therefore he had the right to take them back. Yet, at the end she realizes that her belongings don't mean as much as she thought. She wanted to dispel that God gave her what she has and therefore is able to take them back.

3. That her hope and treasures are in heaven meaning that she has lost hope and her belongings.

7. Her love can only be compensated by her husband's love for her. She hopes that god awards