Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650, and this collection of poems is considered the

first book of original poetry written in colonial America. In her Poems she talks about her love

of God, and her respect for life. Although some of Bradstreet's verse is conventional, most of it

is direct and shows a sensitivity to beauty.

Anne Bradstreet often mentions her love and respect for God throughout her poems. In

her poem The Flesh and The Spirit, she describes a conversation she believes a person's flesh

and spirit would be having over the earthly desires. The spirit is trying to convince the flesh that

it doesn't need to live for the world's desires. This poem describes the way she believes all

people should live, with a true love for God, and not the fleshly desires, and sinful pleasures.

This conversation relates to the fighting back and forth that happens when a person is trying to

figure out whether or not he/she should do something bad; in a sense, it is their conscience

fighting with their desires. At the end of the poem Bradstreet describes heaven to the flesh,

trying to entice it to good by the riches o

second stanza, she says that she "cried out to God," asking him to strengthen her in her distress,

it was her time to die. In the second stanza she describes how many things are only here on earth

poems. She shows her love so eloquently, that its hard not to feel some sort of sorrow for her

In her poem, In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who deceased August

of life and her respect for it. She was a rare happening in the early colonies and she worked hard

describes a little bit of heaven in the eighth stanza of this poem. Through her many mentions of

that she totally trusts God with her whole heart and soul, and that she writes about it so openly. It

about this poem, it makes the reader sorrowful about her death, and brings them to think about

is expressing the way a mother feels for her child the best way she knows, through writing

until their season is over. One expression she uses is when to illustrate that when a person or

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)