To My Dear and Loving Husband

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"To My Dear and Loving Husband" is a 17th-century lyric poem by Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet that expresses deep marital love and spiritual devotion.

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instanceOf lyric poem
poem
addressedTo the poet’s husband
associatedWith The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
author Anne Bradstreet
centuryOfComposition 17th century
contrastWith stereotypes of emotionally repressed Puritans
countryOfOrigin Massachusetts Bay Colony
culturalSignificance commonly studied in high school and college literature courses
frequently anthologized in American literature collections
expressionOf female voice in early American poetry
firstLine If ever two were one, then surely we
focus idealized Christian marriage
form rhymed couplets
genre love poem
hasInfluenceOn perceptions of Puritan attitudes toward love and marriage
imagery fire imagery
heavenly reward
language English
literaryDevice allusion
anaphora
hyperbole
paradox
literaryMovement Puritan literature
literaryPeriod Colonial American literature
literaryStatus canonical work of early American poetry
meter iambic pentameter
motif love transcending death
marriage as spiritual union
narrativePerspective first person
numberOfLines 12
religiousContext Puritanism
rhymeScheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH
setting domestic life in Puritan New England
subjectMatter speaker’s love for her husband
theme Christian faith
conjugal unity
eternal life
marital love
spiritual devotion
tone affectionate
devotional
valueExpressed hope for salvation
mutual affection between spouses
religious piety

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Anne Bradstreet notableWork To My Dear and Loving Husband