The Prologue
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The Prologue
This poem explains that the poet is trying to tell us that her poems are not worthy to be written of things such as wars, captains, and kings. She calls her writing “obscure."
She is simply writing according to the skill God has given to her. Her poetry cannot be mended my any means, and nature made it like that.
Degrading herself and her poetry is what she writes about through some stanzas. Bradstreet compares herself to Greeks, whom she cannot compare herself to because she thinks that they are better than her at art.
Society thinks that instead of writing she should be doing women’s work. Even if she proves her writing to be well, society will claim it to be stolen or by that it just happened by chance. If she was not a female it would be seen through a different perspective.
At this time in history, it was known that men are better than women. This was accepted and known by all. She thought it to be vain to fight about men versus women. She
just wanted to be acknowledged. Women tend to write about domestic issues, and this is not necessarily bad. She would much rather enjoy writing about the pleasures of everyday life than to be writing about in the life yet to come.
Asking less than what is deserved, she is only asking for some praise.
The rhyme scheme is A, B, A, B, C, C throughout the eight stanzas.