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This 3 page paper analyzes and compares works by two women poets, Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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was entitled The Tenth Muse and was published in 1630; her poems were "quite conventional in style and form, and dealt with history and politics" (Lewis). Among her subjects were
the 1642 Puritan uprising led by Oliver Cromwell, and Queen Elizabeths accomplishments (Lewis). However, the publication of her first collection appears to have given her the confidence to attempt less
conventional work, and she began to write "more personally and directly - of her own experiences, of religion, of daily life, of her thoughts, of the New England landscape" (Lewis).
Dickinson, of course, is known for what most critics and readers call a morbid turn of mind. Death and dying are frequent subjects in her work; her titles indicate the
dark subject matter: "Because I could not stop for Death" is one of her most famous poems; another is Twas just this time last year I died" (Dickinson). She often
writes from the point of view of a deceased person, which is odd, to say the least. Her poems can be extremely disturbing. Lets look at Bradstreet first. One of
her most famous poems is "Contemplations," which is over 200 lines long. This stands in stark contrast to Dickinsons works, some of which are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations"
begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lights the trees in a late afternoon in autumn: "Sometime now past in the
Autumnal Tide, / When Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed, / The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride, / Were gilded ore by his rich golden head"
(Bradstreet). But from here, she describes the oak tree, which leads her into a consideration of the works of God and his power; from there she moves into a consideration
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