Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" - Read Flashcards

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guidelines to reading text

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  • consider the author’s background and then work to define the difficult vocabulary in this poem
  • quench (verb) - to satisfy one’s hunger or thirst; to extinguish, as in a fire
  • recompense (verb) - to repay or reimburse
  • manifold (adjective) - many or various
  • persever[e] (verb) - to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult
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Bradstreet shows the magnitude of the love she and her husband share with three repeated lines beginning

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  • “If ever…”
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Anne says she cannot repay her husband’s love but prays he will be rewarded by

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  • “The heavens…”
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the lines “Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere, That when we live no more, we may live ever” indicate

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  • that Anne believes that persevering in love in life will bring some kind of life after death
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this poem by Anne Bradstreet was written to

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  • her husband
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the lines, “if ever man were loved by wife, then thee.” could be paraphrased as

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  • If there was ever a man who was loved by his wife, you are that man
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