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