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 …showed first 75 words of 1243 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1243 total…The heart of this essay describes how Bradstreet used the rhetorical structure of contradiction to portray her theme. This is very similar to Bradstreet’s life. She is a contradiction of everyone from her time period as a Puritan, yet when I read her work, I think she is my theme. She represents change, and change is definitely something that was needed for us as humans to progress and for women to blossom into equals.