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A Letter to her Husband - Coggle Diagram
A Letter to her Husband
Language
Intensity of love
'my head, my heart, mine eyes, my life' - hyperbolic repetition in asyndetic list shows passion
'my magazine of earthly store' - magazine is a structure where explosive material is stored: explosive feelings. 'earthly' shows what is needed for her earthly life
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Metaphysical images
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'so many steps, head from the heart to sever if but a neck' - conjoins bodily and geographical imagery. Study of anatomy
'capricorn...cancer', 'southward...northward' - physical separation e.g. tropics
Light and warmth imagery
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'return, return...from Capricorn' - where sun travels during winter Solstice
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Context
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Bradstreet lived in America, One of the first female poets in the new world
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Themes and Comparison
Sadness: St Lucy's, Valediction
Use of the weather, astrology: The Sun Rising, Ask me no more
power of love (life giving): Flea, Good Morrow, Unprofitableness, Pulley, on our Friendship
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