Part 1 of Essay
During the Puritain era, poets wrote their literature in a very religious sense. Almost all of the Puritain writers based their literature on God. Anne Bradstreet, however, bases her poetry not on God, but on her thoughts and feelings on the events of her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poem An Author to Her Book explains Brads ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... compares the publicizing of her poetry to the exposure of her ugly child to public view and humiliation. Bradstreet uses this comparison as a major way to express her anger. Bradstreet also uses a paradox to express her frustration, “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw”(13). Bradstreet compares washing the face of her child to trying to erase her own problems. With this paradox, Bradstreet expresses her failing efforts to make her problems wash away. She expresses her desperation about her inability ....