Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet is considered the first American poet. That kinda surprised me. WHen you read her poem one way, she seems to be an ideal Puritan wife. But in another way she seems as though she isn't confident. In line 3 of the poem, we see that she really loves her husband. She is grateful & happy with their marriage. When she says "Thy love is such I can no way repay" she's saying that he loves her so much that there's no way that she can repay him, but heaven will. In the poem we see a contrast between spiritual and material. WHen she uses the words: prize, mines or gold, riches, recompense, and repay, she uses material metaphore to describe her love. In the last line however, we see a use of spiritual love.