What does Anne Bradstreet mean in the poem the flesh and the spirit?
Basically, Bradstreet is writing a dramatization of the internal struggle between the “wicked” self–Flesh–and the “redeemed” self–Spirit. Flesh is confused by Spirit’s disregard of the world and all its pleasures, what she considers reality, and she wants to resolve the eternal conflict between them. Spirit on the other hand is determined to continue the conflict as she believes that this is the only way to salvation, because Flesh was born of Adam and Spirit was born of God.
