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Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet’s Themes Lie Within The Rhyme That Does Not Rhyme Mark Twain once said, “The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.” This quote defines Anne Bradstreet, for she has proven to be a master of word placement. Her ability to always create the perfect poetic structure was a necessity, not a luxury. Growing up and living as a woman in a man’s world made it impossible for her to show her true feeling on paper, without first disguising them with a contradicting costume. Bradstreet lived in the 1600’s as a Puritan. This was a time when women were not expected to be educated and more importantly, were not tolerated if they spoke against the strong, religious Puritan beliefs. So Anne, a highly educated woman, who did not agree with the Puritan’s beliefs, very carefully rebelled with beautiful poetry and dynamic rhetorical strategies. The two poems that will be discussed here are “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our Houses.” Though these two poems seem to focus on simplicity rather than complexity, bradstreet, two, lines, theme, poem, vanity, time, rhyme, poems, live, bradstreet’s, rhetorical, contradiction, anne, words, word, upon, questioning, ever, very, through, though, religious, read, loving, line, husband, house, educated, dear, burning, between, beliefs, yet, work, women, woman, without, verses, throughout, structure, something, seems, right, religion, reader, puritan, period, one, last