In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet Essay Example

have to end sooner or later. The first part of the second stanza refers continuously to the pass of time related with the nature, as we can see in the first verses where she does a metaphor with trees, plums, apples, corn and grass.

With this, she want to describe the cycle in the nature, where the death come when there is not more time to life, when the lifetime expire. With that imagery of nature I think that the speaker show some kind of acceptance, its true that she talks about time about anyway she accepts that we cannot escape from death, it can be for the God’s grace or for the pass of time but it will always come.

As I said at the beginning of this paragraph, I think that with this change of theme, focusing on the pass of time in the nature in some way she refers to God, I mean, that she hasn? t totally left from her Puritan view. For that reason, it seems that one stanza is against the other one, like if in the first one she wrote what she really though at this sad moment, and in the second one she wrote an explanation for this. The figure of God in the poem is really different as it was used to be for Puritan writers. Anne describes God as unfair “person” responsible of the child’s death.

Bradstreet does not include her grandchild in the cycle of nature that I have mentioned before, because she sees her death like a God’s injustice. The end of the poem describes her belief in God, she sees

him like a supreme person that guides nature and destiny even when she thinks that he took Elizabeth unfairly. The author’s diction forces the reader to question her spiritual sincerity during the entire poem, sometimes it seems to return to her roots but she is not clear as she is in the beginning where she shows her disagreement.