ANNE BRADSTREET

Here Follow Some Verses on the Burning of Our

House, July 10, 1666
&
To My Dear and Loving Husband
INDIANA STANDARDS
11.3.3
Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the
authors style, and the sound of language
achieve specific rhetorical (persuasive) or
aesthetic (artistic) purposes or both.
ANNE BRADSTREET
1612-1672 (same time
as Shakespeare in
England)
Born in a Puritan
family
Married at age 16 and
moved to New
England

ANNE BRADSTREET
Her father and
husband rose to
prominence, which
allowed her to stay at
home and raise her
children and write
poetry!
Her brother-in-law
published her poems
in London and she
was an instant hit

ANNE BRADSTREET THEMES
Extremely plain style
Pg 28
Seems wordy to us, but simple compared to
Shakespeare!
She wrote on everyday/life events (births,
deaths, love, illness, etc.)

HERE FOLLOW SOME VERSES ON THE BURNING
OF OUR HOUSE, JULY 10, 1666
Themes:
Grief to acceptance
Dangers of loving material objects
Format:
Inversion flipped syntax Yoda talk


Anyone here lose their house or
possessions?