Anne Bradstreet was one of the first female poets in the early Americas.

             Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650, and this collection of poems is considered the.

             first book of original poetry written in colonial America. In her Poems she talks about her love.

             of God, and her respect for life. Although some of Bradstreet"s verse is conventional, most of it.

             is direct and shows a sensitivity to beauty. .

             Anne Bradstreet often mentions her love and respect for God throughout her poems. In.

             her poem The Flesh and The Spirit, she describes a conversation she believes a person"s flesh.

             and spirit would be having over the earthly desires. The spirit is trying to convince the flesh that.

             it doesn"t need to live for the world"s desires. This poem describes the way she believes all.

             people should live, with a true love for God, and not the fleshly desires, and sinful pleasures. .

             This conversation relates to the fighting back and forth that happens when a person is trying to.

             figure out whether or not he/she should do something bad; in a sense, it is their conscience.

             fighting with their desires. At the end of the poem Bradstreet describes heaven to the flesh,.

             trying to entice it to good by the riches of heaven. In the last line, "Take thou the world, and all.

             that will," the spirit is telling the flesh that that the world is all his, and the spirit doesn"t want to.

             have anything to do with it. I think that this conversational poem is a great way to get across her.

             beliefs. It does a good job of telling the reader how she feels about heaven. I like this poem.

             because it describes a way that a person could go about telling another person about their love of.

             God. I also like the way it describes Heaven, as being "More glorious than the glist"ring sun." .

             She uses words that make the reader able to see what she is describing in their minds, while still.

             leaving a part of it to their longing imagination, that makes them want to see this place for.