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Critics generally consider “Contemplations” to be Anne Bradstreet’s greatest poetic achievement. Indeed, it is a compelling and complex rumination on the majesty of nature and God, and the place that man occupies on Earth.
Dec 26, 2023 · "Contemplations" by Anne Dudley Bradstreet is a deeply meditative poem that engages with themes of nature, mortality, and the divine. Composed in the mid-seventeenth...
Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet - Meaning, Themes, Analysis and Literary Devices - American Poems. 1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph {oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride, 4 Were gilded o’re by his rich golden head. 5 Their leaves and fruits seem’d painted but was true.
Contemplations (poem) " Contemplations " is a 17th-century poem by English colonist Anne Bradstreet. The poem's meaning is debated, with some scholars arguing that it is a Puritan religious poem while others argue that it is a Romantic poem .
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, "Anne Bradstreet's 'Contemplations': Patterns of Form and Meaning," New England Quarterly, 43 (1970): 79-96. Ann Stanford, "Anne Bradstreet: Dogmatist and Rebel," New England Quarterly 39 (1966): 373-389. Stanford, Anne Bradstreet: The Worldly Puritan (New York: Burt Franklin, 1974).
Dec 26, 2023 · Written in a time marked by religious fervor and exploration, “Contemplations” captures Bradstreet’s pensive spirit as she grapples with nature, mortality, and...
Contemplations. License: Public Domain. Anne Bradstreet. 1. Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, When Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed, The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride, Were gilded o’re by his rich golden head. Their leaves and fruits seem’d painted but was true.
