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At the end of the poem, Bradstreet finds “victory” in death through her faith, which is a bit more uplifting than the resignation at the outset. This shows that even though she was at her lowest point, she found comfort in the inevitability of death and God’s promise of salvation.
As well as penning a touching poem about her husband, Bradstreet also wrote this poem, written before one of her children was born. Bradstreet addresses her husband (‘my Dear’), acknowledging that Death may soon walk with her and take her from this world.
Bradstreet's earliest extant poem, "Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632," written in Newtown when she was 19, outlines the traditional concerns of the Puritan—the brevity of life, the certainty of death, and the hope for salvation:
Dec 26, 2023 · "Contemplations" by Anne Dudley Bradstreet is a deeply meditative poem that engages with themes of nature, mortality, and the divine. Composed in the mid-seventeenth century, this...
Upon a Fit of Sickness. Twice ten years old not fully told. since nature gave me breath, My race is run, my thread spun, lo, here is fatal death. All men must die, and so must I; this cannot be revoked. For Adam’s sake this word God spake. when he so high provoked.
Collected here are four poems Puritan housewife Anne Bradstreet wrote in 1665 and 1669, mourning the deaths of four grandchildren and her daughter-in-law Mercy. Mercy
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Bradstreet is also known for using her poetry as a means to question her own Puritan beliefs; her doubt concerning God's mercy and her struggles to continue to place her faith in him are exemplified in such poems as "Verses upon the Burning of our House" and "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild".
