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  1. The poem's primary themes include the oppression of women's rights, patriarchal conventions, and the joy of writing. Although the poet has a great love for writing, the patriarchal culture prevents her from reaching the highest degree of excellence. She acknowledges that males are the ones who recorRead more

    The poem’s primary themes include the oppression of women’s rights, patriarchal conventions, and the joy of writing. Although the poet has a great love for writing, the patriarchal culture prevents her from reaching the highest degree of excellence. She acknowledges that males are the ones who record the big historical occurrences and episodes, and she also admired those great authors. But that does not imply that a woman may never produce a work of literary merit. She acknowledges that her writing may be imperfect, but it does not mean she should abandon her desire to write poetry. She has always admired male writers and aspires to be acknowledged among them as a writer because she thinks there should be equality in the literary community.

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  1. The poem "The Prologue" by Anne Bradstreet has eight stanzas that are divided into sestets, or groups of six lines. These sestets have a straightforward ABABCC rhyme pattern, with different end sounds in each stanza. The Prologue Summary

    The poem “The Prologue” by Anne Bradstreet has eight stanzas that are divided into sestets, or groups of six lines. These sestets have a straightforward ABABCC rhyme pattern, with different end sounds in each stanza.

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  1. The Prologue, a poem by Anne Bradstreet, is an intriguing comparison of the poet's own writing skills to those of men. The poet exposes the reader to a number of various justifications for why and how, as a woman, her poetry is inferior to that of men. She thinks she has a lesser intellect since thaRead more

    The Prologue, a poem by Anne Bradstreet, is an intriguing comparison of the poet’s own writing skills to those of men. The poet exposes the reader to a number of various justifications for why and how, as a woman, her poetry is inferior to that of men. She thinks she has a lesser intellect since that’s what women were taught to believe in her day. She is prevented from attempting to write on historical subjects or anything else of global significance by this. The poem makes a few points about women’s writing abilities, but she continually returns to appeasing the males who would object to her choosing to write rather than sew.

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  1. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line, such as the sound of /e/ in “And ever with your prey still catch your praise” and the sound of /o/ in “Nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings.” Anaphora: It refers to the repetition of a word or expression in the first parRead more

    • Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line, such as the sound of /e/ in “And ever with your prey still catch your praise” and the sound of /o/ in “Nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings.”

    • Anaphora: It refers to the repetition of a word or expression in the first part of some verses. Anne Bradstreet repeated the word “nor” in the third stanza of the poem to emphasize the point, such as; “Nor yet a sweet Consort from broken strings,/ Nor perfect beauty where’s a main defect.”

    • Enjambment: It is defined as a thought in verse that does not come to an end at a line break; rather, it rolls over to the next line. For example; “But when my wond’ring eyes and envious heart/ Great Bartas’ sugar’d lines do but read o’er,/ Fool, I do grudge the Muses did not part/ ‘Twixt him and me that over-fluent store.”

    • Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. The writer has used imagery in this poem, such as; “From School-boy’s tongue no Rhet’ric we expect,”, “Nor can I, like that fluent sweet-tongued Greek” and “A full requital of his striving pain.”

    • Rhetorical Question: Rhetorical question is a question that is not asked to receive an answer; it is just posed to make the point clear. The writer has posed a rhetorical question in the sixth stanza of the poem to emphasize her point, such as “And poesy made Calliope’s own child?”

    • Symbolism: Symbolism is using symbols to signify ideas and qualities, giving them symbolic meanings that are different from the literal meanings. “The poem shows symbols such as praise, complaint, pain, negligence, and chance.

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