Anne Bradstreet

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This paper examines how Anne Bradstreet has two different voices in her poetry: Her public voice and her private voice. It discusses how, although she did not want to bring disgrace to her reputation as a hard working committed Puritan woman, she also wanted her voice to be heard. It shows how she did so through her poems such as "Of the Four Humours" and "The Prologue" .

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"There are two intertwining voices in Anne Bradstreet's poems. One voice is the committed puritan woman who completes her duties and through the help of God can get through anything. The other voice is that of a lightly spoken feminist who through different speakers in her writings voice her own opinions. In her poems she is very humble, saying that her writing is not great and it will not amount to anything, however, she also very quietly is stating that she did write these and without the help of a man. Some critics regard these acts as a creative way to display her reactions towards life in a male-dominated society that allowed little room for a confident "self-expression" (Margerum, 152)."

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