Finish Intro, Puritans and Rationalists
- Answer 3 questions on p. 6 (Hand in)
- fill out goldenrod sheet for notes
- Review all American Values (yellow sheet)
Anne Bradstreet, p. 29
- Plain style-simplicity and clarity in writing
- Inversion-changing word order to fit rhyme or metric structure.
1. Find three examples of inversion and uninvert them. Examples:
- line 1--"In silent night when rest I took" becomes "when I took rest"
- line 2--"For sorrow near I did not look" becomes "I did not look near for sorrow"
2. Some readers have felt that by so lovingly enumerating her losses (ll. 21-36), Bradstreet is crying out to heaven in a way that unconsciously reveals more attachment to her earthly possessions than she would admit to. On the other hand, what Bradstreet does not reveal in this poem is significant: Hundreds of books, as well as her papers adn all her unpublished poems, were also lost in the fire. Using specific examples from the text, explain why you are or are not convinced that the speaker means what she says.
(Hand in with questions from p. 6)
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