LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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As long as we live, we’ll love each other.
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As long as one of us lives, our love will live.
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Let’s love each other so well that we live on after death.
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If we’re very determined, we’ll be able to love each other until we die.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following BEST restates the last two lines of “To My Dear and Loving Husband"? Let’s love each other and live so well that we live on after death for eternity in heaven.
Detailed explanation-2: -The final line of this poem ends with a small glimpse into the next life. She says, “That when we live no more, we may live ever”. This line suggests that their love with being eternal. She believes that even after this life is over, they will continue to be in love for all of eternity.
Detailed explanation-3: -This line should actually read, “Make my Conversation to be thy Reele.” In comparison to “Huswifery, ” “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is full of inversion. One example is when Bradstreet writes, “If ever two were one, then surely we” (1).
Detailed explanation-4: -Though a pious Puritan, Anne Bradstreet’s poem to her “Dear and Loving Husband” is a passionate plea for true and everlasting romantic love.