"To My Dear and Loving Husband"by Anne Bradstreet
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.
Reflection:
The speaker is a woman expresses her feelings to her husband through the poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband. The woman conveys her feelings by comparing her love to objects and women. Like gold mines, other women, and riches. I like it how she is trying to convey her feelings to her husband but, I don’t like it how she compares herself to other women and riches. I think love is too pure to have it be compared to other things. However, to even write a letter about her love to her husband is a great act and her choice of imagery is good.
Dear Dairy:
Right now, I am reflecting over a poem I just read, it is called To Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet it conveys a message of how much a woman loves her husband. Through this poem I can see that she thinks very highly of him, and she wishes to stay with him always in life as well as the next. What I think is odd about this poem is that she refers to money, and she compares herself with other women. I wouldn’t compare myself to other women, I think it is very odd but, I have never experience love. I shouldn't complain since I have not reach that stage, yet. Although I may not have a love relationship I know many people who are having one. Like my parents which is going well. However, I hope Ashley's relationship improves because she and her boyfriend are having a little bite of trouble. He is still living in France and she misses him a lot. I hope they will find a way to solve there problem. To tell you the truth, I think I should give Ashley, this poem to help express her feelings to her boyfriend. Since she talks about him nonstop, you think it would be easier to express her feelings to him. It is so obvese that she loves him and that she doesn't want to be away from him. Right now, I may not understand this poem but maybe some day I will.
-Jane
Essential Quesiton Reflection:
The American Dream can be lead down different roads, the road of happiness, hope and of love. Through the American Dream many individuals wish there dreams of love to stay eternal. To be able to experience the same feelings of love for the other individual for the years to come. Happiness and love come together because as long as you have love you can always be happy. The American Dream can be seen as a false dream to some but, to others it can be seen as a sign of hope where there wish of love and staying together will last forever.
3 comments:
Again, I did not thin that this peom had anything to do with Native Americans, but I suppose it is possible. I have to say that it would have been nice of you to comment more about your journey to America, but it was still an interesting interpretation.
I don't think the picture goes with the poem as much as they should. You could do a husband and wife Indian. Once again, READ SLOWLY!! You should really do that during study hall! Just read over your passages and you will see that you make a lot of grammatical and spelling errors. Umm...no offense but I didn't really like this reflection as much as the other because I think that you are not remembering that you are in the late 18th century and they didn't really use words like "smoothly" or "Mama". Just re-read it over again. :D
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