Question

the speaker in bradstreet's poem states that her love for her husband is? A less than her love of wealth and comfort. B. greater than her love forGod. C. less than the love other women feel for their husbands. D. as strong as, if not stronger than, any other womens love.

Answer 1

She says how insignificant material possessions are when compared to her feelings of love. She also uses financial imagery to compare her love with that of her husband’s.
It appears in lines 5 and 6, with her mention of “mines of gold” and “the riches that the East doth hold.” She uses these examples of wealth to show that the riches are grand they are worth less to her than the love of her husband.

Lines 3-4: She dares other women to even try to compare their happiness with hers. To my understanding of the poem the answer cannot be B.

Extra: Line 7 can compare to that of the Song of Solomon when on Chapter 8: 7 the beautiful sulemite tells her shepherder: "Waters cannot quench love" (JW.ORG) the same compared in this poem on line 7 explains: "Rivers cannot quench” her love