Bradstreet

I’m 100% not a poetry fan. I’ve never been able to understand it or grasp it, but I really did enjoy reading “In Reference to Her Children” by Anne Bradstreet. I found it great that she used birds to metaphorically describe her children, because just as birds fly the coop, children leave the home. She goes on to describe where each of her eight children end up, which I find to be somewhat like bragging, something every mother loves to do! I know my mother will go on for hours about what I’ve done in my 20 years on earth, even though I don’t believe it to be anything too exciting. However, I know she’s extremely proud of me and who I became, mostly because she had a great deal in  who I’ve turned out to be. I feel like this is what Bradstreet is getting at. No matter what her kids grow up to do, she’ll be proud of them and love them always. She goes on to say she wishes that they have kids, to experience what she experienced with them. I feel like that’s something all mothers wish for their children, to have a child and share an unbreakable bond with them like they’ve shared. My favorite line is “A dam loved you well.” That’s what I’ll say about my mom and what I hope my kids say about me! I wish to someday become a mother, because I want a best friend that I can also say is my child. I’m excited to one day brag about the connection I had with my mother and make the connection I have with my child even stronger. This piece showed her happiness she has as a mother and the peace is brought upon her knowing that she has eight little birds who have left the nest, but she’s proud of each one of them and who they’ve become.