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A 3 page paper that provides a brief overview of the elements of the poetry of these three women poets and their impact in terms of feminism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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deeply rooted in a long tradition of verbal and accomplished female writers, and these three definitively demonstrate the force of this statement. Anne Bradstreets force within the
scope of her marital relationship suggests that while she is a strong woman, she is also dedicated to the life of a man, her husband, and this notion is clearly
not an underpinning of feminist ideology. Bradstreet writes: "If ever two were one than surely we./If ever man were lovd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was
happy in a man,/Compare with me ye woman if you can." (Bradstreet 48). She goes on in this poem to dedicate her life and her afterlife to her husband,
but it must be recognized the power of Bradstreet persona is in the mix of both her vulnerability and in her desire for self-expression, two notions that underscore a noticeable
gender difference from many of the women of her era. Phillis Wheatley was a poet who demonstrated her struggle both as a woman and as a slave.
Wheatleys personal ideology is deeply imbedded in her conception of religion, gender and society as they are reflected by her race. She writes: "Twas mercy brought me from
my pagan land,/ Taught my beknighted soul to understand/That theres a God" (Wheatley wheatley.html). Wheatleys struggle with the belief that religion and social constructs do not always apply to
either blacks or women is fundamental to her struggle as a poet and her identification as a black woman. Wheatleys work is differentiated from the other two writers presented because
she embraces both ethnic and gender-based considerations, and her history as a black slave and a woman manipulated within a social and cultural climate in the 19th century underscores some
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