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Overall Deeper Meaning of the Work

Although Bradstreet experiences one of the greatest losses imaginable, she remains devoted to God because of her belief that He is a purposeful and all knowing God with an explicit plan for her.

Literary Devices

  • alliteration

“Blest babe”, “farewell fair flower”, “bud’s new bloom”, “His hand”

  • repetition

“farewell” x3, “babe” x4

(goes in with theme of goodbye)

  • rhyming pattern

first paragraph: ABABCCC

second paragraph: ABABCCC

“By nature trees do rot when they are grown,

And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall,

And corn and grass are in their season mown”

-Her granddaughter died before her time

-fall of fruit -> Adam and Eve-> fall of perfection

-Universal truth: all good things come to an end (i.e. trees, crops)

eternity"

everlasting state"

“Then ta’en away into

“Sith thou art settled in an

“But plants new set to be eradicate,

And buds new blown, to have so short a date,

Is by His Hand alone that guides nature and fate”

-buds = baby

-in a better place (Heaven)

-by His Hands:

all part of God's plan, He planned this (God is good)

“Blest babe why should I once bewail thy fate,

Or sigh thy days so soon were terminate;

Sith thou art settled in an

everlasting state"

-unnecessary to mourn

"Farewell fair flower that for a space was

lent"

-Puritanism (no blame)

-temporary

-life cycle

"Pieta"

by: Michaelangelo

"In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old"

The Cheetah Girls

Amy Young, Aubrey Helton, Christine Decker, Hailey Kim

-sculpture of Madonna and Child

-Mary is carrying her dead son, Jesus

-kinship and religion

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