Anne Bradstreet

I really enjoyed reading Anne Bradstreet's works. Her poems were fairly easy to understand and laced with subtle irony and sarcasm which was enjoyable to read. Throughout her poems, she brought up many issues with being a women poet in a time where women weren't supposed to be educated and do things like write poems. I thought it was very interesting, then, that she wrote a poem all about Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth is one of the most prominent females in our history, and accomplished a lot during her reign. Anne spoke in her poem about the fact that Queen Elizabeth was a women and yet did so much for her country despite the common feeling that women were inferior. It really seemed like this poem was written almost to spite the men of the time, for it was a well-written poem by a female about a female who was an outstanding person in her time. I thought Anne did a wonderful service to her sex by writing that poem in particular, but all of other her poems as well.