Puritan Poetry: Huswifery and To My Dear and Loving Husband

Line 7 of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” uses a metaphor to compare

• husbands with wives

• rivers with God

• love with thirst

• faith with Earth

What does the poet of “Huswifery” use to show that practicing faith is an everyday activity?

• a metaphor that compares practicing faith

  to making cloth

• an extended metaphor that compares God

  with beautiful yarn

• a personification that shows a spinning

  wheel practicing faith

• hyperbole of spinning yarn that

  exaggerates the truth of practicing faith

In “Huswifery,” what does the metaphor that compares the speaker with a loom and God with a weaver suggest about Puritan life?

• Many ministers bought cloth from shop

  owners.

• Making cloth at home was an everyday

  activity.

• People who made cloth also worshiped

  God.

• Only people who went to church made

  cloth.

What does the speaker claim at the beginning

of “To My Dear and Loving Husband”?

• The heavens envy her for her love.

• Her husband loves her more every day.

• Other women are unable to understand

  her.

• Her relationship is the best that there ever

  was.

The last lines of “To My Dear and Loving

Husband” reveal the speaker’s

• strong belief in eternal life and God

• plan to reward her husband’s love

• travel around the Puritan community

• desire to compare her love with others’

  love

In “Huswifery,” the poet compares the

speaker to

• the spool

• a loom

• the yarn

• a reel

The speaker in “Huswifery” hopes to be ready

for

• affection from others

• a loss of memory

• eternal life

• a position of power

Both poets use their poetry to express the view that

• people should always feel happy

• spouses will always love each other

• good actions will lead to heaven

• God does not desert people

Bradstreet uses hyperbole in the first four lines of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” to exaggerate the truth that

• faithful love is forever

• other people envy her love

• her husband is far from home

• . she and her husband love each other

Both Bradstreet and Taylor have written

poetry that expresses the

• strong faith that characterizes Puritans

• daily challenges of living in the new world

• religious difficulties of their historical

  period

• deep love husbands and wives feel for

  each other