What is the prologue by anne bradstreet about?

Answer 1

It is about her frustration with Puritan society with regards to the place of women. In my favorite verse it becomes clear: “I am obnoxious (vulnerable) to each carping (scornful) 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.” She is saying that everyone is telling her that she shouldn't be doing something that is considered unfeminine such as writing poetry. They are telling her that she should be sewing or cooking. And if she does do well with her poetry it won't matter because she is a woman. They will say she stole it from a man or it was just by chance. the preface or introduction to a literay work.

Answer 2

In general Prologue talks about the struggle of being a woman in Puritan society .

in spite of her acceptance the regulations are forced upon her in the society .