Anne Bradstreet A Puritan Poet
Anne Bradstreet, a Puritan poet, very subtly and sarcastically challenged early colonial male bias as well as the traditional role of women inferiority as much as she could without offending the male writers of her time. In her poem Prologue Anne could have easily earned a title such as Ms. ... For instance, her father educated Anne and she had access to eight private tutors, while other Puritan women received very little education. ... In the fifth stanza one can almost hear Bradstreet shouting, “ I am woman!