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Anne  Bradstreet
安妮•布拉茲特里特
主要文類:Poem
資料提供者:Margarette Connor;Ron Tranquilla

Anne Bradstreet

 
1. What does Bradstreet's poetry reveal about Puritan ideas of proper roles for women? About her ideas of a woman's proper roles? How are these ideas similar? Different?

2. What conflicts do you find between Bradstreet's inner feelings and Puritan doctrines/

3. Why does Bradstreet claim the sisters in "Dialogue of the Flesh and Spirit" are "twins"? In what other poems does Bradstreet dramatize a "dialogue" between flesh and spirit?

4. Bradstreet's religious and social beliefs are Christian. However, do you see any similarities between the following poems and Confucianism's Five Great relationships:

"To Her Father with Some Verses," and filial piety

poems to her husband ("Before the Birth of One of Her Children," "To My Dear and Loving Husband," and "A Letter to Her Husband"), and obedience

the letter "To My Dear Children" and "Before the Birth of One of Her Children," and kindness

 
   
American Literature Survey I: Ron Tranquilla
   
 
   
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