Anne Bradstreet

I think I really admire Anne Bradstreet.  Through her writing she conveys herself as a genuine person with struggles.  She isn't afraid to make herself vulnerable, not only in the emotional sense but in the social sense as well.  It is truely amazing the way that she writes with such distinguished ideas about truth, but she doesn't just simply state what she knows to be true she wrestles with it and evaluates based on her own perspective.  I think that it was right of Anne to accept that she couldn't simply accept the ideas told to her without evaluating them from an emotional stand point.  She speaks about this in her letter to her children.  It wasn't just through the words that lay on a page in the bible that made her relationship with God real. It was the interaction through prayer, struggle, reading the word, seeing God do things in her life,  and the creation that he God made that makes her faith truly faithful.
For me the poem that really struck me was the one that she wrote in memory of one of her grandchildren.  She describes the idea of a really painful realease in the beginning of this poem, but as it continues she gains a subtle peace.  That  brings me to the other thing that I really enjoy about her poems.  It is because there is an array of emotions as I read it is almost like I am embarking on some sort of journey.  In short I think Anne Bradstreet was a very powerful and genuine women who dealt with what she felt and believed through her poetry.