Anne Bradstreet: A Woman poet, Wife and a Mother

Introduction

Anne Bradstreet was remarkably one of the first American women poets in the history. Being a woman of puritan society she was very aware of her position as a female writer. Cowell and Stanford say “Nowhere is the tension more discernible than in Bradstreet's association poetry with motherhood, she was certainly not the first to see the possibilities in the metaphor of parenting, to her as a woman poet this metaphor had special force, for in blending two versions of occupation- the occupation of mother and the occupation of poet”(p257). My essay will ...