“From Love of Devotion in Ezra Pound’s A River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter to Love at First Sight in Anne Bradstreet’s To My Dear and Loving Husband”

My interest in these poems first began due to the fact that both writers, Ezra Pound and Anne Bradstreet, have addressed these poems to their husbands. The poems “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound and “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet have two major similarities that I will be exploring here for example both wives are speaking to their husbands and both wives love them so dearly that they will do anything for their husbands. These poems also have several differences that came to my attention, one of which is the type of love felt for their husbands and another is the style in which each was written. These comparisons immediately distinguished one poem form the other and both poems from the other readings.
“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” is about a woman who grew up in a small village in Japan and was married to a childhood friend, but during the first thirteen years of her life she did not like or dislike him, as she notes by th...