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A 5 page paper which discusses the work of
Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson as it involves God, death, and the spiritual
experience. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to create their poetry while living immersed in a world controlled by men. They were women who wrote poetry about life and death and God. They searched for answers and
meaning in their poetry. The following paper first discusses the work of Anne Bradstreet and then discusses Emily Dickinson, examining their focus on death, spirituality and God. Anne
Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was a woman of early America, and a woman who was perhaps one of the most powerful experimental poets of her time. She was a brave individual:
"At age eighteen, Anne was among the hundreds of English Puritans who sailed for America under the leadership of John Winthrop in 1630" (Glimpses). And, as one critic notes, "Although
few other American women were to publish poetry for the next 200 years, her poetry was generally ignored until rediscovered by feminists in the 20th century. These critics have found
many significant artistic qualities in her work" (Woodlief). In better understanding this reality we note that, during the 17th century it was the metaphysical poets, who focused on truths that
went beyond the physical world, often employed extended metaphors. Anne Bradstreet makes comparisons between a book and a child in her poem "The Author to Her Book." We see some
of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who after birth didst by my side remain,/ Till snatched
from thence by friends, less wise than true,/ Who thee abroad, exposed to public view" (Bradstreet 1-4). In this we clearly see her reaching for some sort of expression, her
own spiritual release through her poetry. In another poem, "To My dear and Loving Husband," she also seems to reach out, looking for words that could express her love
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