Poetry of Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradsreet expressed, in her poetry, a passion for life, but even more ,a passion for life after death. Bradstreet rejected the tendency to want to value earth more than heaven. Bradstreet feels that the reason people “loath to exchange this world for a better” (Med. 13) is that they do not want to give up what they have , because they faith is too weak to value that which unseen. Even though, they know something better is waiting. Bradstreet says that people want to live a wonderful life here on Earth with all the joys and pleasures of the world and only hope for the splendor and exuberance of heaven. In Bradstreet’s poem, “Memory of My Dear Grandchild” she expresses love and compassion for her one and half year old grandchild, Elizabeth Bradstreet. She says, “Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye, Farewell fair flower, that for a space was lent.” She has peace even though her grandchild was less than two years old when she died, and how she feels that her grandchild did not get to enjoy life. She also says, that even though her time here on Earth was curtailed by death that she knew she would be, “settled in an everlasting state .” In her poem entitled “To My Dear and Loving Husband” she conveys a similar thought. She says,” I prize they love more than whole mines of gold” which means that she loved him so much that she would pretty much give up her life for his. Also in”TMDLH” she says, “ That when we live no more. we may live ever” which means that she hopes that even when they die, that they will live together forever in heaven. In Bradstreet’s poem entitled “Upon the Burning of Our House” she conveys a thought of missing the house she lost and hope of a home in heaven. She says in the poem that,” When by the ruins oft I past my sorrowing eyes aside did cast” expressing her thought of missing her beloved possessions such as her trunk and her chest, as well as her home. She then says that she hopes to live in,” A house on high erect, framed by that mighty Architect, with glory richly furnished” meaning she will hopefully live in a glorious home in heaven one day. In all of Bradstreet’s poem’s, she consistently gets across The point of wanting to live forever. Like when in “TMDLH” she says ,”That when we live no more, we may live ever” or in “MMDG” where she saysthat she knows her granddaughter will, “ live forever in an everlasting state” , while hoping for a home in heaven.