Before you Read:

Anne Bradstreets poem was found among her personal papers after her death. It was never published during her lifetime. As a Puritan woman, she would have frowned on this open display of affection that was not directed toward God. Kate Chopins short story was refused publication because many believed that the ending was offensive. Consider the authors lives and the times they lived in. How might this give emphasis to their messages?

During your Reading: SOAPSTONE Rhetorical Analysis

Copy this format. Please number and label each response. Each section should be two-three sentences. Provide specific textual support and analysis for each response. Elements Loving Husband Hour 1. S: Speaker: Discuss the authority and The speaker is writing about her own She shows her authority by credibility of the speaker/writer. How does the for her own husband. Writing love giving details about the woman speaker establish her ethos? Explain specific about her personal experiences and and her past feelings compared with ways that the speaker/writer helps to define feelings, so therefore she is the only her present ones, like when she herself as a trustworthy and qualified messenger.

expert about herself.

2. O: Occasion: Analyze the reason(s) the She is writing at this time to show her writer/speaker is choosing to approach the topic love to a husband who is gone a lot. at this particular moment in time. Is she writing/speaking in Because of her loneliness, she created the reaction to a specific event or person? Discuss how poem to show how much she loved him. the occasion is revealed in the speech/passage.

She could also be writing after he did an important thing or task for her.

3. A: Audience: Explain to whom this piece is This piece is directly written as if she is directed. How do you know who the audience is? speaking to her husband. She says man and How is the audience defined? Discuss how the wife in reference to herself and someone speaker/writer demonstrates understanding of the else. I think she is directing this at him and audience and how he or she uses that understanding to other people who wish to identify with such accomplish his or her goals.

a deep love.

4. P: Purpose: Analyze the purpose/argument/claim purpose of this poem was for Bradstreet The of the speaker/writer. Explore the purpose beyond its to express her emotions, particularly ones basic informative nature. You must identify at least about love. She uses metaphor and one specific action expected of the audience. Discuss figurative language to show how much her how the purpose is revealed in the passage.

husband means to her, probably so she could express her feelings in a society were women werent given many rights.

writes how joyous the woman was when her husband died (no one else knew). Perhaps Chopin is writing this piece in rebuttal to a controlling man who was in her own life. She may have wanted to show that it was okay for women to want to be free. This piece was probably written at this time to show how trapped women were in those times. Chopin writes to women who are held back by the society they live in. She takes the point of view of a woman who is happy to be free of the ties of marriage, which would mainly appeal to those who feel the same way (mainly women). The purpose of Hour is to shed light on the misery people are in when they feel trapped by obligations or duties to that which they dont like. As the audience, we should see how difficult it is to be let free only to be caged back in unexpectedly.

5. S: Subject: Explain the general topic, content, and is the topic. The writer very Love ideas contained in the text. Does the speaker/writer clearly states her love and shows that explicitly state the subject or is it implied? it is the subject. 6. Tone: Analyze the attitude of the speaker/writer. tone of this piece is very The Tone extends meaning beyond the literal. Examine the complimentary and adoring, which is authors diction, syntax, structure, and imagery. Give conveyed through flowing, descriptive specifics to demonstrate how the tone is achieved and imagery and simile. The joyful tone is how the tone affects the meaning of the passage. Use also illuminated by the rhyming. your list of tone words to pinpoint the specific tone(s)

The subject is most likely freedom because of how the woman feels she had it, only to lose it. The writer implies this meaning, but does not explicitly state it. The tone of this is as if the writer wants the reader to feel a sense of relief, the same feeling the woman gets after becoming free. She does this by light, and easy going description of the surroundings

of the piece.