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Anne Bradstreet has long been recognized as the first true female poet to develop in the English-speaking new world. Recent biographer Elizabeth Wade White continues to claim that she was "also the first major female poet  in Britain." With a title she didn't offer  it was her first collection of poems from the New England colony where Brad Street emigrated as a young woman in 1630.  The tenth muse, six years after her death due to a significant number of poems first published in 1678. Brad Street's apparent debt to these authors suggests that in 1630 she carried her favorite book on Albera to the wilderness of New England.

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Anne Bradstreet demonstrate the dedication and perseverance involved in the puritan's American Dream through their literary works.  In the American  Dream, they had many new opportunities to seek and fulfill such as following their own religion and not having to follow the Church of England. Though outwardly conventional, Anne Bradstreet was certainly a feminist.

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Bradstreet's untitled poem, written in 1643, reflects the Puritan emphasis on morality, character, duty, prayer, and death. Puritan ministers urged their parishioners to imitate Christ's piety, acceptance of one's role and status in life, and charity toward others; to subordinate their own feelings to God's will, as expressed in family, government, and church authorities; and to pray constantly in order to prepare for death's inevitability but surprise. Bradstreet's poem reads as if it were a memorial to her life, as well as the lives of many other Puritan mothers in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.

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Anne's guiding metaphor is based on the English spoken by everyone at the period. One of the most prevalent interpretations of the name "bird," derived from Her

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Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672): "In Reference to Her Children..."

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Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672): "In Reference to Her Children..."

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Anne's guiding metaphor is based on the English spoken by everyone at the period. One of the most prevalent interpretations of the name "bird," derived from Her children are divided into four male "Cocks" and four female "Hens." She was a young son or daughter from 1300 forward. All of them are referred to as the "Brood" by him. These terms make it sound like she's thinking of Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of Chantecleer and Pertelote, the barnyard cock and hen, but chickens don't speak "chirping languages," don't fly away, and don't speak "chirping languages."

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The first female American poetess of British origin

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The first female American poetess of British origin

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1. O'Donnell, Thomas F. "Anne Bradstreet." DISCovering Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2101201989/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=9a308e62. Accessed 16 Feb. 2022.

2. Lawson, Russell. "Untitled Poem (1643, by Anne Bradstreet)." Dictionary of American History, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, 3rd ed., vol. 9, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003, pp. 91-92. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3401804686/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=4cd908e6. Accessed 18 Feb. 2022.

3. "Anne Bradstreet." DISCovering Biography, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2102100206/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=46ea4a27. Accessed 18 Feb. 2022.

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Anne Bradstreet, Several Poems, 2nd edn. (Boston: John Foster, 1678). Cf. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Joseph R. McElrath, Jar., and Allan P. Robb (Boston: Twayne, 1981): 184-86.