Anne Bradstreet Reading Response

Anne Bradstreet poems can be looked at in several ways, but in all of her poetry you can see her loved for her husband and family. As she stated in “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, her first line was used to express what she felt her husband was like in this relationship. Her words were “If ever two were one, then surely we.” This describes the love she feels for her husband. A love that makes her feel as if they are no longer two separate people, but one person working together. Her next line furthers that thought, saying that her husband definitely loves her. She goes on in the poem telling how much she loves her husband and that she loves hers more than any other woman. Anne says she wouldn’t give up her love for anything, not even gold. This poem of hers, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, was written in a rhyming fashion as most of her poems were.