Puritan Poetry: Huswifery and To My Dear and Loving Husband

The speaker's primary audience is --

• God
• her husband
• other married women
• jealous lovers

The "ye women" to whom the speaker refers are women who are--

• competing for the affection of the speaker's husband
• jealous of the speaker
• also married
• young maidens

Read the following lines from the poem.
"I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
The tone of these lins can best be described as--

• accepting
• exuberant
• understated
• hopeful

In the poem, the phrase “ought but love from thee, give recompense” (line 8), most nearly means—

• All I’ve earned and desire from you is your love in return
• As my husband, you owe me much more than love
• I love you even if you do not return my love as you should
• We deserve more from life, but our love is enough to sustain

The poem’s final three lines signals a shift from—

• A hopeful tone to an anxious tone
• An attitude of speculation to one of conviction
• realism to fantasy
• worldly concerns to spiritual concerns

In her poem" To My Dear and Loving Husband", Anne compares her love for her husband to what?

• the moon and stars

• a deep ocean

• a lonely forest

• all of the riches of the East