ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Bradstreet almost always either puts heavy emphasis on the role of God and religion, or else she ignores it completely in her domestic poems. This inclusion or exclusion of religion can also be seen as her struggle for order as she tried to determine the limits of her own voice in her new community.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a Puritan she struggled to subdue her attachment to the world, but as a woman she sometimes felt more strongly connected to her husband, children, and community than to God.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bradstreet sees God as a just one even though he took all of her physical possessions. She takes His justness a step further by saying in lines 18 and 19 that even if He took all of her belongings, it would still be reasonable. Bradstreet also believes in a positive afterlife for herself and most people around her.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bradstreet’s brother-in-law, without her knowledge, took her poems to England, where they were published as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). The first American edition of The Tenth Muse was published in revised and expanded form as Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (1678).