Assignment:
Consider the position of Anne Bradstreet as a Puritan woman and as a settler in America. Think about her poetry with regards to her husband and children and her role as a wife and mother. Then, consider how your reading of her poems would differ if you didn't know about her background. (50-word min)
Does her poetry share any similarities in subject matter with the sonnets of Shakespeare or Petrarch? (100-word min)