Anne bradstreet Prologue

Francis Surmann
09-19-03
Analysis Paper 1


In Anne Bradstreet’s, “The Prologue”, Anne talks about the struggles she has as being a woman in a colony dominated by men and their all their good deeds.
The poem, in the first verse, starts off praising the conquests of men throughout the years. In such lines as:
To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings,
Of cities founded, commonwealths begun,
For my mean pen are too superior things:

Anne is humbled to the exploits that men have co...