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The line "Who says my hand a needle better fits" refers to Those who think women belong in the domestic sphere Bradstreet questioning the strength of her hands The difference between the size of a pen and a needle Bradstreet's vulnerability
Transcribed Image Text:The line "Who says my hand a needle better fits" refers to Those who think women belong in the domestic sphere Bradstreet questioning the strength of her hands The difference between the size of a pen and a needle Bradstreet's vulnerability
A Art can ng pain: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. do much, but this maxim's most sure, S 25 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, 30 They'll say it's stol'n, or else, it was by chance. vulnerable spite T 1412 ibn A 6 And But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild, Else of our sex, why feignèd they those nine,² invented poesy made, Calliope's own child, So 'mongst the rest, they placed the arts divine: "But this weak knot they will full soon untie, The Greeks did nought, but play the fool and lie.4 mA 7 Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are, Men have precedency, and still excel, It is but vain unjustly to wage war; Gan do best, and women know it well. Men will
Transcribed Image Text:A Art can ng pain: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. do much, but this maxim's most sure, S 25 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, 30 They'll say it's stol'n, or else, it was by chance. vulnerable spite T 1412 ibn A 6 And But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild, Else of our sex, why feignèd they those nine,² invented poesy made, Calliope's own child, So 'mongst the rest, they placed the arts divine: "But this weak knot they will full soon untie, The Greeks did nought, but play the fool and lie.4 mA 7 Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are, Men have precedency, and still excel, It is but vain unjustly to wage war; Gan do best, and women know it well. Men will
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‘The Prologue’ by Anne Bradstreet is a famous poem from which the given line is taken.

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