The Prologue

Anne Bradstreet was among the few extraordinary females who earned a place with male writers of seventeenth century. Anne Bradstreet's poem The Prologue was an opinion on the role of a women played in male driven society and states about her feelings being as the first female writer of her time when there were scarce. During that time the place of women was at home, kitchen or doing in-house work. Anne Bradstreet with the help of her poem The Prologue speaks about the status of women in the eyes of public. (Woodlief, 35)

In the poem, "The Prologue," Bradstreet is revealed herself to readers. The first stanza of Bradstreet's poem Right away a In her first stanza, Bradstreet instantly seems to disgrace her own writing glorifying that convinced "superior things" are out of her accomplishment in writing. Nevertheless, she quietly and knowingly ridicules her critics. She was capable of writing historical accounts and she also had the skills and knowledge to do so. Her passion was poetry. She knew that the society that she lives in a biased towards women and the criticism she will be facing if she would have completed a historical account. She describes her angry tone and modest attitude towards the criticism that was around her in the following lines. “I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits, / A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong," she describes herself as a brave and strong woman. She has stated that in her seventh stanza "Preeminence in all and each is yours; / yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours" these lines she informing the critics who were rejecting or refusing her integrity and credibility of her talent. (Woodlief, 35)

She wanted to have individuality and originality in her writings. So, ...