Anne Bradstreet

Tiffany Garcia
English 48A
Bradstreet Journal

Book Quote:
“All things within this fading world hath end…Who with salt tears this last farewell did take”

Online Quote:
“Anne Bradstreet contrasts the transitory nature of earthly treasure with eternal treasures, and seems to see these trials as lessons from God” –Associated Content

Summary:
Anne Bradstreet was a woman Puritan who wrote personal poetry and were exposed in publication without her knowledge. Her work explain everyday life for Puritan women but also share her personal question whether there is a God and why doesn’t he come to her and others. But resolves it is God’s will.

Opinion:
As all things must end she must let go and accept it is the way it is meant to be, as being a puritan she must believe it so. In other poems of hers she mentions she will be rejoined with the ones she loves in heaven, an after-life. However in this one she ends a “last farewell” no comfort of seeing one another in heaven. I believe it isn’t there for a reason because in such a case of leaving her child and husband, she would try to comfort them as much as she could as a good woman puritan does. Because death from childbirth was so common, and she explains her belief of her possibly dying she writes this poem in hope of comforting those she cares for but doesn’t say she’ll see them in the after life and her personal history of her lack of belief in God comes in. She sees she will most likely die and leaves this poem as she will die and never see them again. But if there is a God let him watch them who she leaves.