An Analysis of Anne Bradstreet: In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabe

An Analysis of Anne Bradstreet In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet The Puritan womans life was hotshot secure in self-examination bringing about the assembly of a spiritual armor in order to duel feminine sexuality to the death. In the lament In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old, Bradstreet does not to fight with the expected vengeance against the manifestation of her evil, her child, as one would expect within the given spiritual context. Instead, Bradstreet refers to her daughter with terms of affection, calling her dear and sweet babe. This rejection of the Puritan patriarchy while remaining within a loose form of elegiac style is a cunning method of subversion. The value-laden categorical relationship made between the initial section of the elegy touch with connections of femininity to nature, mother earth, and the body is juxtaposed with the secondary section of the elegy referring to mal eness. Maleness is related to death, the fall of nature, and time providing t...