Comparing The Poems Of Anne Bradstreet And Edward Taylor

In current poetry is being considered as a confusing and complicated art which cannot be fathomed by average people. Furthermore, majority of the poets are written in vernacular languages; this makes them to become typically outdated and also unfamiliar to many people. With regards to Edward Taylor’s poem the “Huswifery” and the poem by Anne Bradstreet called “To My Dear and Loving Husband” outdated methods were not implemented. The two authors used dissimilar writing styles and this resulted to comparing same topic in contrasting ways. For instance, Anne Bradstreet in her writing she regularly used slang or an informal writing method in her poem; this was evidenced because of using words such as reward and repay.

When the Puritans came to America in the 1600s, they brought many aspects of their lives with them, including their beliefs in modesty, hard work, and religious devotion. Their strong values in religion were a constant part of their everyday life and were a big feature of their society. Even though they were urged to suppress their feelings and fully devote themselves to God, some Puritans had struggles with this, and used poetry to express their true beliefs. Poet Anne Bradstreet voiced her unconventional ideas through her poems while Edward Taylor used his poetry to stress his strong support of his religion and faith. Although Puritan poets Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor of the early American colonies belonged to the same belief system, they expressed divergent views of faith and dependence on God through their poetry.

The Puritans believed that they were chosen by god to spread and inform people about their religion. They weren't considered members until they proved to the Puritans and, to believe in predestination and viewed success as salvation. This lead them to believe that hard work would lead them to good things in this life and the after. Now, all the literature of Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, and Emily Dickinson were all reflects of the Puritans literature. The authors stayed true to their belief and writing. The Puritans literature reflects on their beliefs and how they view things. The Puritans are really religious so it relates on how they write their literature and view the world.

According to Alice Morse Earle: “From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.” Harsh rules, based on Biblical laws and major punishments for little misdeeds had been putting restrictions on Puritans’ actions. In addition to an enormous set of church and government regulations, citizens of New England were forced to reject the importance of secular life and focus on honoring God. The pattern of negotiation of material values and concentration on praying provided a strict discipline in the religious society. By showing various Puritan values, the poems of Anna Bradstreet and Edward Taylor demonstrate a realization of social norms by focusing on worshipping God and rejecting materialism.

Studying several author’s’ works from a single period of time enables readers to have a better understanding of their way of life. Even though Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards,were both Puritans, they had two different types of point of view.

messages to their audience in different formats. “Edward” believed you get punished by god for

Anne Bradstreet Reading Questions Choose two of the following five questions and write a well-developed essay response to each. Look for ways to compare the poems that you choose to write about, and offer transitions that indicate your comparison of the works. Use MLA format to document quotes from the text. 2. How do you see Bradstreet’s Puritan beliefs regarding love illustrated in “To My Dear and Loving Husband?”

Puritan Literature was important because “the Puritans did not believe they could not speak directly to God”. They read the Bible, Puritan writings and attended sermons.Two main writers Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards were popular people during the Puritan period. They both shared ideas openly. Jonathan Edwards was a preacher whose sermons used fear to intimidate others into joining the church. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan writer and poet who used a different style to express her beliefs. I believe Anne Bradstreet’s

She wants to make it known that god is good to her and no matter what she will always have a home and that being a Puritan means that god is there for her. Anne Bradstreet is very similar to Jonathan Edwards because as he writes he talks about how being a Puritan will save you and that not following god is the wrong choice because by following god you are safe and that god is so powerful that if you do anything wrong by him you shall be punished. These stories are similar but also different in many ways.

When reading Pre-Civil War works, readers may have a preconception that the works may be difficult to decipher and view them as archaic; however this is clearly not the case. The works are written in modern English, and therefore, readers can still understand the overall, general concept even if they cannot decipher each and every word. When reading the Salinas and Cherokee creation stories, Columbus’s Letter, and the works of Samuel de Champlain, the works can be read with ease. The overall concept/ message may be difficult to understand at times, but to read each of the works can be done effortlessly. Although the majority of the works assigned this week are easy to understand and read, Anne Bradstreet’s poetry may be considered a tad more difficult to comprehend, because her poetry is written in a quatrain and the language gives off a flowerily

The Puritans were a group of people that emigrated from England and settled in North America. They were a highly religious group of people with a variety of literary works. The Puritans had no single voice that represented them, but instead a variety of voices that represent their group. The Puritans and their literary works were the prominent between 1620 to 1783. The purpose of Puritan literature was “to apprise both his neighbor and his fellow-Englishman across the sea of recent events taking place in the colonies (Warner, 588).” Edward Taylor was an incredibly prominent Poet during this time period, writing many different poems and sermons. He was “an orthodox, reactionary, New England Puritan Minister, ably caring for his congregation and vigorously defending the American Federal Theology.” The poetic works of Edward Taylor conform to the same style

Her Puritan beliefs were reflected in her poems. One of the central principles of Puritan ideology found in her writings is the belief of total depravity. Total depravity is the belief that every human is born sinful. This concept of depravity became a central theme in Puritan writing, in order to acknowledge depravity and to try to overcome sinfulness. In her poem “The Prologue”, Bradstreet writes, “Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are;” (Baym et al. 112) describing the Puritan belief of total depravity.

Anne Bradstreet was America's first published poet who lived in the 1600’s. She was a well-educated poet for her age and time, a loving wife, and caring mother. She used her poetry to show recognition of women's rights, the puritan lifestyle and beliefs, also to show her husband and eight children how much she loved them. Most of Anne Bradstreet’s poetry is based off true experiences in her life and what she believed in spiritually. In that day and time, she was heavily criticized for being a woman and writing. Bradstreet wrote a lot on puritanism, being a mother and wife, as well as the ways of life. Anne Bradstreet was and still is one of the most important American poets of all time.

Two different time periods, yet the same fear to self express. In a world where one is constantly forced to be silent with many things to be said. Poetry in the Puritans religion was uncalled for and unthought of particularly coming from women. Anne Bradstreet a puritan woman, as well as the first American woman to publish writings. She wrote her poems with hesitation. Bradstreet was uneasy due to the fact that women in her days weren't to be expressive of their thought or feelings. Most of her writings were among the topics of struggles being a woman, difficulty of loss, and questioning of faith. The Puritans believed that if someone slightly questioned God, they were a partaking in Satanic ideals.

In his poem “Huswifery,” Edward Taylor uses various metaphorical phrases to demonstrate that one’s sole purpose of living is to live out God’s word and to serve him. As being a part of the Puritan society, serving God is the most important priority. Taylor exhibits this common Puritan quality of wanting to work hard to serve the Lord by asking God to help shape him into the best individual he can be. In the first stanza, Taylor wants God to be the master behind his “spinning wheel,” which indicates his desire for God to take over his life and to use his life to help spread God’s word. Taylor then claims that he wants God to pull together the pieces of his heart, and all his thoughts and emotions, and focus them into one beautiful