Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips was famous for writing poems of love and companionship which was the norm for women during that time. In her poem Epitath, she examines what is most important in this world. It is not beauty or youth because those fade away with time as children died young during that time period. Even though her child is dead, she says that he has broken all barriers to get to heaven and that he will be buried in a morning cloud. I think she references this because children couldn't be scorned for what they did wrong and that they should receive proper burial and no judgment for what they did. They were too young to know right from wrong.