Are Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley similar poets? This essay is going to compare the different lives, styles, and purposes of these two great poets. It will start comparing the two directly, then split off and take a look at each author individually, and finally wrap it all up in the end. Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley were female poets who had their works published in America. Their lives were remarkably diverse, which caused obvious differences in the tones of the two authors. The
Many writers have appeared on the literary scene in the post-slavery era and the end of the American Civil War, where the writer was particularly concerned about the living conditions of the blacks and their suffering. In fact, the problem of blacks did not end completely even after the declaration of Abraham Lincolns declaration of slavery was freed in 1862 and even after the passage of the actual law of 1863 of the Declaration of Liberty. The black faced many problems after this period, including
wanted to keep the power in the states and not have another strong national government. The federalist’s papers made arguments to defend the Constitution and the supremacy clause against what the anti-federalists were saying about it. Specifically, in essay 34 of The Federalist Alexander Hamilton wrote, “A law, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe.” (Maddex, 526) By saying this Hamilton justifies the supremacy clause