LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
If ever a wife brought happiness to her man, then I do.
|
|
|
Compared to all other wives, I am the best.
|
|
|
If another woman were married to my husband, she would not be as happy.
|
|
|
No woman could be happier with her husband than I am.
|
Detailed explanation-1: -If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. In the third and fourth lines, she reassures her husband that she is happy with him. She challenges him to compare her with any other woman and see that she herself is happiest of all women because she is married to him.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which statement best describes the tones of “To My Dear Loving Husband” and “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty"? Bradstreet’s poem has a soft and loving tone, while Wheatley’s poem has an energetic and excited tone.
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: -As its title suggests, “To My Dear and Loving Husband, ” is a poem about married love between a man and wife. It proposes that such love has a powerful effect on the two people involved: as the speaker announces in the first line, they become “one.” This suggests that their love is pure and unified.