My Dear Loving Husband
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- What is she talking about?
- If ever two were one, then surely we.
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- If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
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- I envy her!
- The poetic device, allusion, is present in Anne Bradstreet's poem. It can be found in lines 7. Bradstreet states, My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompense. This is an indirect allusion to the biblical Song of Solomon, a section from the Hebrew Bible. It consists of a series of love poems that represent dialogue of a young woman and her lover in the days leading up to their marriage. There is a line in the Song of Solomon which states, Many waters cannot quench love. Bradstreet uses this allusion to the Song of Solomon to connect her own love with the Bible's demonstration of love. This is evident in the poem when she states, My love is such that rivers cannot quench.
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- The turn of the poem occurs on line 7, where the allusion is also present. Before the turn, Bradstreet simply explains how passionate and true her and her husband's love is for each other. She even mentions material wealth such as gold and states that she prizes her husband's love more than wealth and riches. After the turn, however, she shifts to a more religious and spiritual perspective of their love. This is evident when she states, My love is such that rivers cannot quench, which alludes to a religious poem from the Hebrew Bible.
- Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
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- Then while we live, in love let's so persever, That when we live no more, we may live ever.
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