LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Their love will continue in the afterlife.
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When they die, people will remember what good spouses they were.
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That when they die, they can finally stop being miserable with one another
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That their love will eventually kill them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Then while we live, in love let’s so persever, That when we live no more, we may live ever. She ends ‘To My Dear and Loving Husband’ by claiming that they will persevere in love until the end. Bradstreet has no doubt that she and her husband will stay married and in love until one passes from this life to the next.
Detailed explanation-2: -In “To My Dear and Loving Husband, ” Bradstreet persuasively presents her views on how to resolve the basic contradictions of Puritan faith-in other words, how to live in this world while keeping an eye on heaven.
Detailed explanation-3: -That when we live no more, we may live ever. The speaker concludes the poem by saying that she and her husband should love each other so strongly while they’re alive that they will live forever.
Detailed explanation-4: -“To My Dear and Loving Husband” demonstrates that a Puritan woman’s physical passion could be proclaimed as the nearest thing on earth to heaven. However, the speaker’s love for her husband almost seems to outweigh her devotion to God. Devout Puritans tried not to love any earthly thing more than God.