Anne Bradstreet was one of the first poets to write an English verse in the American colonies. Her poems were written for her family she had no incentive to publish them. Anne Bradstreet sailed to settle on Massachusetts Bay at 16 out of a civilized and humane background. Her father, Thomas Dudley, a man of education, had been steward to an earl; her mother, was a gentlewomen. Anne Bradstreet’s parents seemed to have a great …showed first 75 words of 510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 510 total…than in her style. From her writing you could also observe that Anne Bradstreet happened to be one of the first American women who lived in a time and place in which heroism was a necessity of life and mean, and women were fighting for survival both as individuals and as a community. She was clearly a strong individual, who expressed herself very well in her work and influenced many other women with her work