anne bradstreet and figuritive language
...alive than I a greater debtor? Let malice bite and envy gnaw its fill, He was my father and I’ll praise him still.” She was expressing that she had the right to grieve as long as she wanted to because he was her father. The next stage of grief Anne Bradstreet takes the reader through is honoring the dead for the good deeds. She begins to acknowledge her father's acomplishments and states how he was loved by others.” One of thy founders, him New England know, who stayed thy feeble sides when thou was low.” She is saying that he was one of the founders of the new world and that even when times were hard he still was loyal to his country. Anne Bradstreet uses the literay tool of alliteration when she states “Who spent his state, his strength and years with care.”Her father spent his life with care is what she was saying. Also, she explains that her father was a religious person “Thy love to true religion e’er shall shine; My father’s God, be God of me and mine.” A biblical reference to judgement day is used when she says “Their greatness may be judged by what they shew.” Anotheer biblical illusion is when she states “For he a mansion had prepared above, For which he sighed and prayed and longed full sore He might be clothed upon for evermore.” Anne Bradstreet is showing an example of the use of metaphores. She is referring to how her father has a place in heaven prepared for him and will rest there for eternity. Anne Bradstreet begins to explain that her father knew his time was coming. “ He did exult his end was drawing near” The use of the literary tool personification and similes is showed in the quote “ Now fully ripe, as shock of wheat that’s grown, Death as a sickle hath him timely mown,” She was saying that her father had lived his life out to the fullest and it was time for him to die. Anne Bradstreet was giving the wheat and the mowing personification. The reader is now taking through the last stage of grief which is acceptance.Anne Bradstreet has accepted the fact that her father has died and is in a better place. “Ah happ...