Puritan Writing Style Essay

In 1678, many of Anne Bradstreet’s poems were published for public view. Throughout her poems Bradstreet tends to use symbolism to express her innermost thoughts and feelings. One of these poems is In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659. Three of the most significant symbols in this poem are the representation of her family as a flock of birds, the dangers in the world, and the expression of her feelings toward her children. Anne Bradstreet’s representation of her family as a flock of birds symbolizes two different things.

Poems from the time of the Puritans usually were based on their religion. Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor both portrayed a Puritanical message in their poems. Edward did so more so than Anne. They both conveyed different types of love. Anne wrote about her husband and how much she loved him. While Edward wrote about his love for God and how he wanted God to use him for His glory.

Anne Bradstreet was a woman in conflict. She was a Puritan wife and a poet. There is a conflict between Puritan theology and her own personal feelings on life. Many of her poems reveal her eternal conflict regarding her emotions and the beliefs of her religion. The two often stood in direct opposition to each other. Her Puritan faith demanded that she seek salvation and the promises of Heaven. However, Bradstreet felt more strongly about her life on Earth. She was very. She was very attached to her family and community. Bradstreet loved her life and the Earth.

Anne Bradstreet was America's first noteworthy poet in spite of the fact that she was a woman. Both the daughter and wife of Massachusetts governors, Bradstreet suffered all of the hardships of colonial life, was a mother, and still found time to write. Her poem, "The Author to Her Book," is an example of Bradstreet's excellent use of literary techniques while expressing genuine emotion and using domestic subject matter.

Ambition, human nature shows that men inherently put their own self above others. He does not look at this as a flaw, but as something to be accepted since it cannot be changed. Humans are not angels, and that is the reason we need a government.

In “The Author to Her Book,” Bradstreet is inundated in indecision and internal struggles over the virtues and shortfalls of her abilities and the book that she produced. As human beings we associate and sympathize with each other through similar experiences. It is difficult to sympathize with someone when you don’t know where they are coming from and don’t know what they are dealing with. Similar experiences and common bonds are what allow us to extend our sincere appreciation and understanding for another human being’s situation. In this poem an elaborate struggle between pride and shame manifests itself through an extended metaphor in which she equates her book to her own child.

One of the most central beliefs in Puritan faith is that human nature is evil. They constantly need to access themselves and make up for their sins. That is a point that is strongly emphasized throughout the sermon. In fact, even the first sentence brings this belief into light, claiming, “natural men…deserved the fiery pit.” He says that their wickedness is making them heavy like lead, weighing them down into hell. In his opinion they have done nothing to appease God’s anger and gain his grace, which is, in Puritan faith, the only way to be saved from the pits of hell. He describes God’s anger as “great waters

The poem involves many circumstances of biblical imagery because it is very reminiscent of the idea of church being an over ruling power at the time. ‘Illegitimate spawning’ this refers to the child being unable to be baptized, which was at the least frowned upon by the Christian church. Background knowledge of the ideals of the Christian church tells readers that the woman would not have been able to abort the child, but the child once born would have be considered illegitimate for the entirety of it’s life. The reason for this may have been that the child was conceived before marriage. ‘Even Christ’s palms, unhealed, Smart and cannot fish here.’ Suggesting that even Jesus himself cannot redeem an illegitimate child. This positions the reader to view the child’s helplessness from the beginning of its life, and view that the child has been oppressed due to the conditions that the child has been conceived under.

Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast, -at her, the child of honourable parents, -at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, -at her, who had once been innocent, -as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.

He believes that ‘Nature hath made men so equal' that ‘one man can claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.' This, taken from Chapter 11, leads us to a conclusion that three things in the Nature of man bring out complexities that cannot be resolved and lead to tyranny and war. These are competition, diffidence and glory. Mankind's self-instincts for

Puritan literature captures not only their beliefs as a religion, but their beliefs as individuals. All Puritan literature is utilitarian, meaning it is useful, purposeful, and reflecting a non-ornate style of writing. One of the most prominent of early English poets was Anne Bradstreet. Her poems reflect the utilitarian style, but do so in a way that is entirely unique to herself and her emotions. Anne Bradstreet opens the bridge between her faith and her personal experiences in her poetry. In her poems “Upon the Burning of Our House” and “In Reference to Her Children” she reflects utilitarianism by recounting the conflicts between her love of her worldly things and her devotion to God’s eternity.

Exams are coming up soon in a couple of weeks and every students are doing whatever it takes to get an ideal Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). Studying in Melbourne or Britain, educational styles should be completely different from Asia countries. However, high schools are forgetting the focus on academic and scholarly achievement. The opinion piece: “Schools need academic achievement, Chinese style” in The Age by Christopher Bantick contends that Australian schools should learn from the Chinese as they only focus on their academic achievements. He uses a condescending and questioning tone to address his audiences who are secondary students, especially Year 23 students. In contrast, Paul Cock's letter to the editor in response to Bantick's

Taylor, in his poem “Meditation One,” comments on the relationship between man and God and what that entails for mankind. Since God “Marri’de our Manhood, making [mankind] it’s bride?” (Meditation One line 6) humans must embrace the role they are destined to take and accept God as another role in their lives. Because a bride or a wife traditionally partakes in very specific activities that require neither brute strength nor survival skills, which leaves these necessary facets of life to God. God becomes the caretaker who endures the harsh environment and events so that his bride, mankind, can focus and fine-tune their own lives and skill sets, so that they may develop. Being a wife and to achieve huswifery, the bride must work hard to cultivate their skills, there are many tasks that entertain small, difficult, and seemingly useless parts to it, but create something better once completed. In Christianity, discipleship is like this. One must spend time frustrated and trying to accomplish little tasks that concern their own soul while God leads them to greater things—but just as long as the little, personal things are being done. This idea falls under the puritan ideology of pre-destination because the humans are following God’s will by working on themselves and consequently, their society while they allow for God to forge the course of life itself. They humble themselves to this position for a better future, one with God at the focus. This emphasizes the truly religious attitude of the people due to their humble and hardworking nature. And this emphasis is made through a small line, and yet it holds plenty of meaning—its importance stressed by the hypophora that it becomes. It is extremely effectual to establish the value of their relationship with God because every puritan knows the role of bride and groom, it is an integral part of their society as is their

women are still fighting for equality every day. In the time of Anne Bradstreet, women had few

Anne Bradstreet, as a poet, wrote as both a Puritan woman in her time and as a woman ahead of her time. Zach Hutchins analyzed this tension in “The Wisdom of Anne Bradstreet: Eschewing Eve and Emulating Elizabeth”, and makes a primary argument that three of Bradstreet’s poems provide evidence that Bradstreet rejects the Puritan views of a woman while keeping her own personal faith. Hutchins fither his argument by declaring that readers should not view Bradstreet as a symbol of rebellion or submission, instead as a symbol of wisdom.