Bradstreets Views Towards Male

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never be as talented as he is: “A Bartas can do what a Bartas will / But simple I according to my skill”(stanza 2, lines 11-12). The sarcasm in these lines cause the typical reader of the poem to reconsider that perhaps women are not as bad as Bradstreet portrays them to be, exactly the thought she has schemed for the reader to think.
Continuing, Bradstreet mentions regret for her lack of skill, in which she laments the fact that “A weak or wounded brain admits no cure”(stanza 4, line 24). As the reader proceeds reading, Bradstreet discusses the prejudice against women, knowing that if she expresses her true feelings, no one will look at her poem. Therefore, she says:
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet’s pen all scorn I should thus wrong,
For such despite they cast on female wits:
If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,
They’ll say it’s stol’n, or else it was by chance. (Stanza 5, lines 25-30), implying that she despises ...

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