Anne Bradstreet

Reflection

"In Reference to Her Children" by Anne Bradstreet would have to be my personal favorite out of all her works we have studied. This is because of the strong metaphors she uses through out the poem like describing her eight children as "birds". I would also say in this poem there is a little bit of "motherly bragging" which I think is actually an emotion that helps me understand my own Mother and how she brage to her co-workers (haha). This for me cam in the line "No cost or labour did I spare" showing her pride and effort in raising her children well. Three of her children are to young to leave the "nest" yet five have gine and then her emotions really spill. I feel like this poem shows emotion to its fullest from Anne and if anything, it has helped me understand my own Mother a little bit more.


Diary Entry (s)


Dear Diary,

I have now stepped on to this soil of what they call the "New World"; truly disgusting! Even though this is hard to say, I have to make the best of my new life. My husband won't be around as much but it's something I am willing to try so I don't have to go back to England... alone.


Dear Diary,

Sorry the time has passed. Eight years does a lot to a woman; I never really had anytime to write until now. All of my writing time have gone into my poems. Well, currentely I am raising 8 children. That's not my problem though. I am not even supposed to be writing poems. All the woman would scorn me and the men would spit. I don't belong here, I already know that, yet my freedom is limited. I love my husband not like a Puritan should so let me be different! Or let me just hide and write another poem...

Sincerely,
Anne B.