LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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His Love
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His Honesty
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His Gold
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His Good Looks
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, she also describes her relationship with her husband in financial terms, noting that she cannot “repay” him for his love. Love is still somewhat transactional here. Then, the speaker prays that “the heavens” will “reward” her husband for his dedication to her, since she can’t.
Detailed explanation-2: -She says she has no way of repaying him for his love, and she prays that the “heavens reward” him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Or all the riches that the East doth hold. In the fifth and sixth lines, she proclaims to her husband that his love is worth far more to her than any amount of money could ever be worth. She claims that she values his love “more than whole mines of gold” and even more than “all the riches that the East doth hold”.
Detailed explanation-4: -Deeply felt human love, she seems to be saying, is a kind of salvation, one so fulfilling here on earth that she hopes it is a glimpse of the hereafter where it will live forever (“That when we live no more, we may live ever.”). As Bradstreet scholar Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Detailed explanation-5: -"To My Dear and Loving Husband” begins by describing the compatibility between the speaker and her husband (and boy do we mean compatibility!). The speaker then describes how much she values her husband’s love, how strong her love is, and how she will never be able to repay her husband for his love.