The Essential Question: Bradstreet

After reading and analyzing Anne Bradstreet's poem, I have begun to shape an answer to the question: What is an American?

Anne Bradstreet's subtle questioning of society and religion in her poetry has caused me to realize that Americans are people who choose what they want to believe and who they want to be. After years of class struggles between races, genders, and religions, America has become a forum where everyone is valued for what they can bring to the table, not what they look like or what they believe.



*Credit to: ~BetrayMe on deviantArt