1612-1672) presents a beautiful love theme. "Of ever two were one, then surely we" (1). This quotation is important because Bradstreet is pointing out that she does not feel as though she is one individual person. One of the first questions that come to my mind is if Bradstreet was trying to make a point for all wives to be that way. Also I see the great value she has for the love of her husband by the way she describes it as meaning more to her than all the gold in the world and how her own love for her husband is a love that she cannot stop, because her love is "such that rivers cannot quench". Today I will be explicating her love for her husband in this poem and or my personal interpretation of the Anne Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband.  The first part in this poem, "If ever two were one" (1) sets us with expectations of true love. These words show that Bradstreet and her husband were really in love. The poem continues on saying that "I prized thy love more than whole mines of gold, or all the riches that the east doth holds  is declaring there is nothing as powerful as the love she shares with her husband which is untouchable and eternal. Bradstreet voices her profound love and undying affection for her husband. For a Puritan woman who is supposed to be reserved, Bradstreet makes it her obligation to enlighten her husband of her devotion. She conveys this message through her figurative language and declarative tone by using imagery, repetition, and paradoxes. Bradstreet is sold on the love for her husband so much that she say "my love is such rivers cannot quench . Here love being compared to an unquenchable thirst that cannot even be quench by the continuous flow of a river. Bradstreet even challenges other women in the poem saying "If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; if ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can.  Throughout the poem the high appraisal for her husband and th