Compare And Contrast Phillis Wheatley And Anne Bradstreet

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Phillis Wheatley's and Anne Bradstreet's poems were both about men that they admired and loved and the women showed their affection through their use of figurative language. The writers both used hyperboles to show how extreme their love for each man. Wheatley and Bradstreet both applied figurative language to their writings to compare their love to these amazing occurrences. For example, Anne Bradstreet wrote, "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,-" she is comparing her husband's love to the worth of countless amounts of gold. Her husband's love is more valuable than any amount of gold. Both poets used figurative language and hyperboles to express how deeply they love the men they wrote their poems about. However, the two women