ANNE BRADSTREET CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST EVER AMERICAN POET

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ANNE BRADSTREET CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST EVER AMERICAN POET DAUGHTER OF PURITAN SEPARATISTS IN ENGLAND MARRIED AT 16 TO A PURITAN MINISTER EMIGRATED TO COLONIES AT 18 MOTHER OF 8 EXPOSED TO CONTEMPORARY POETRY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE—ONE OF HER INFLUENCES

Anne Bradstreet ***POETRY WAS FROWNED ON BY THE PURITAN COMMUNITY—IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE AN IDLE VANITY THAT OPENED THE MIND TO THE DEVIL BRADSTREET’S POETRY WAS NEVER INTENDED FOR AN AUDIENCE SHE VIEWED POETRY AS A TOOL FOR SELF REFLECTION POEMS WERE TAKEN WITHOUT HER PERMISSION BY HER BROTHER IN LAW—HE PUBLISHED THEM IN ENGLAND WITHOUT HER CONSENT THE TENTH MUSE LATELY SPRUNG UP IN AMERICA

LITERARY ELEMENTS INVERSION: CHANGING THE NORMAL WORD ORDER OF A LINE OF POETRY IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE RHYME SCHEME OR METER EXTENDED METAPHOR: JUST LIKE A REGULAR METAPHOR, BUT IT IS DEVELOPED OVER SEVERAL LINES OF POETRY ALLITERATION: REPETITION OF CONSONANT SOUNDS AT THE BEGINNINGS OF WORDS

LITERARY ELEMENTS METER: PATTERN OF UNSTRESSED AND STRESSED SYLLABLES IN POETRY IAMB: A FOOT OF POETRY CHARACTERIZED BY ONE UNSTRESSED SYLLABLE FOLLOWED BY A STRESSED SYLLABLE ASSUME FIRST THAT THE POEM IS WRITTEN USING IAMBS…THEN FIGURE OUT HOW MANY STRESSED SYLLABLES THERE ARE TO DETERMINE THE METER --3 STRESSED SYLLABLES/LINE: TRIMETER --4 STRESSED SYLLABLES/LINE: TETRAMETER --5 STRESSED SYLLABLES/LINE: PENTAMETER RHYME SCHEME: pattern of end rhyme used in a poem Assign first line the letter “a” If the second line rhymes with the first line, it is also “a” If the second line doesn’t rhyme with the first, label it “b”