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Term Paper Title	#4: SIMILARITIES OF BRADSTREET AND
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#4:  SIMILARITIES OF BRADSTREET AND
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     M.A. Richmond states in Bid the Vassal Soar, “There is a
marked similarity between the two poets in the accent on
personal humility and deep religious feeling.”  The two poets that
the quote is referring to, are Anne Bradstreet, and Phillis
Wheatley.  Bradstreet and Wheatly may have been different on
the outside, but their writing styles are very similar.  They both
wrote much more intellectually than women of their time were
expected to be able to.
     In Anne Bradstreet’s 60 years, she became an accomplished
writer.  She was the first North American to publish a book of
poems.  Though it was uncommon for women in her time to be
well-educated, for fear that their heads might explode,
Bradstreet was tutored by natives of England.  This and her
access to a library helped her become the accomplished writer
of many poems.  However , the greatest influence on her writing
was religion.  Being brought up as a puritan, she had puritan
religious beliefs, which were exposed in her poems.  In her poems,
Bradstreet used a literary device called inversion.    These poems
were discovered by her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, who
published them without her knowing.
     Phyllis Wheatly may have lived a very short life, but her
accomplishments are still appreciated today.  She was a slave
brought over from Africa, at a young age.  She was purchased by
the Wheatley’s, who taught her English ...

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