Reading Strategy: Paraphrasing The old-fashioned language and sophisticated imagery of Bradstreet's and Taylor's poems
can make them difficult to understand. When confronted with a challenging poem or plece of
prose, you will often understand it better if you paraphrase, or restate ideas in your own words.
Bradstreet's version:
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
Paraphrased:
No woman could be happier with her husband than I am.
DIRECTIONS: On the lines provided, paraphrase the following excerpts from Bradstreets and
Taylor's poems

In one of the many simplistic lines in her poem, she says “If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.” (Bradstreet, 76); without the use of inversion

Explanation:

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