Upon The Burning Of Our House

Reading Skills: Understanding Cultural Characteristics Look back over the details you highlighted or underlined that reveal characteristics of Nez Perce culture. The chart below contains a list of different aspects of Nez Perce life. Fill in the right-hand column with details from “Coyote Finishes His Work” that tell you about each aspect. Sample entries are given.

Edwards paints a picture in people's minds of a fire by exclaiming, “His wrath towards you like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes,than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours” (Edwards 3). Edwards paints this picture to display how ruthless God is and how willing he is to take action against the humans who are despicable to him. From Edward's point of view towards God, he depicts how God is willing to take action without a second thought against humans and watch them become engulfed in flames. In the same way Edwards paints this picture of fire, he creates a more horrific image when he spoke, “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as many of the damned in Hell.” (Edwards 3). As stated before, God would be willing to take action against humans and cause agony without a second thought by simply letting them slip through his fingers into the pit of fire that Edwards describes. This more frightful imagery of the pit of fire described also shows how strict God is because if humans continue their sinful lives, God can simply drop

Jonathan Edwards had great power and influence over the people of his church. Edwards “inherited” his church from his grandfather, the Rev Solomon Stoddard, a powerful and loved preacher. How Edwards had this great influence over his congregation was due to the fact that he put the fear of God in them to repent. Edwards talked about how “nothing keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, except the mere pleasure of God” (pg 2), and how God takes pleasure in seeing the wicked suffer. The congregation is told that “the arrow of death fly unseen at noonday” (pg 4), meaning that our death can come at any moment and none of us are prepared for our judgement. There is a way, however, to be saved, “an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein

Edwards has a bit of an over dramatic personality by restating the same things over again but rewording what he has said so that people will understand the concept of what he is meaning. He tends to stretch the truth from bible stories and uses descriptive and dramatic words to draw a picture for his listeners/readers, and to give them something to be fearful of. In one of Edward’ most popular sermons he read; “You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that hold you from falling into the fire every movement,” (p.125). This demonstrates the pictures and the fear Edwards is pointing out to his audience. In contrast, Anne Bradstreet is very straight to the point and expressed emotion towards what she is writing without being over dramatic. Bradstreet wants her readers to understand with love and kindness that God is good and that following his believes is the right path. In the poem “ To my Dear and Loving Husband” Bradstreet writes, “My love is such that rivers cannot quench,/ Nor ought but love from thee give recompense” (line 7-9) In Bradstreet's’ poem, she shows kindness and love and true trust in God’s goodness, however Edwards does not manage to do the same in his sermons. Edwards’ preaches about a God who is waiting to send you to the fires of hell, so you’d better choose to follows God’s

In Anne Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of Our House” and Jonathan Edwards’s “ Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” the good and evil’s of man along with how these coincide with the laws of Puritans are mentioned. Both of these texts exhibit the religious belief of the Puritans. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem a raging fire destroys the narrator’s belongings and kills her lover. Later in the text the narrator, still in grief from her loss, comes to terms with the tragic event implying that the objects that she own would all turn into dust. She believe that it was God’s will to give here these treasures and it is his right to take them away. Edwards does show that he believes in God. He does believe that said God is all powerful and he holds everyone lives in his hand. He believes that man has sin so much that they are already doomed to an eternal life of

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, she manifests an example of a hyperbole. She says, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold.” (Line 5, Page 116). She also has an example of a personification in Line 7 that says, “My love is such that rovers cannot quench.” Edwards’ use of figurative language is completely different. Edward’s uses figurative language that is very alarming, hair-raising, and spine-chilling. He is fond of the idea of making his audience afraid and anxious to ensure them that God Is also observing attentively. Edwards shows powerful figurative language by using metaphors that are aimed at the audience's emotions. Through metaphors and images, Edward's compares the spiritual world to the physical world of the audience. Images of weight and tension commanded influence on the sermon. God’s wrath is compared to the fierce power of a bursting dam. The “bow of God’s wrath is bent,” the arrow of God is pointed at the unconverted human heart. Edwards and Bradstreet can be contrasted by their use of powerful figurative language that they plan on using to mess with the audience's emotions. Their similarities hide in the religion and their use of God in each figurative

To start with, Edward’s describes one fear in describing the horrors of God’s wrath. In the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he converses about how God’s wrath is to be feared, and you should do your best to stay on his good side. He describes this wrath in the form of water and floods, a bow and arrow, and a bottomless pit. One example of this is “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the

Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards had two completely different images and views of God. In Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Edwards says, “The bow of God’s wrath is bent”,

In contrast “who knows the power of God's anger” depends Edwards (129.) Which means he believes God has revenge in him. There differences here is there image of God by the way Bradstreet sees God as someone who never would do anything to hurt you. Where Edwards believes that if you sin God will find revenge to haunt you. In comparison since they both are Puritans they both base their world around God. They believe every second of everyday God is watching and giving them grace for the graceful things they

Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards, two puritans during the Great wakening, have two perspectives on god and life itself. Although some of what they say is similar, they do have opposing views on some subjects. In Jonathan Edwards’ sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” he expresses his views about the unforgivingness of god. In Anne Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of our House” she writes a captivating poem about being smited by god. In both they elaborate on the power and willingness of god but have opposite views on why.

When Anne house was burned and there was nothing left. She was thinking of God and said, “ It was his own, it was not mine/ Far be it that I should repine”(18). Anne thinks it is fair that God taken her house and she shouldn’t regret about it. She believes that now she has house on heaven. Anne is being good Puritan and praising God. In sermon Edward is talking about how God is only thing that keeping people out of hell and says, “ Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downward with great weight and pressure toward hell and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf”(80). Edward is saying that people are wicked and it makes them already bad person. If God decide to let go people will immediately fall in a second. If people continue to do evil works it will make God more angry and he will make them go to hell. Edward and Bradstreet trying to teach being good Puritan and try to do things that will make them go in

At the beginning, I was shocked. Because Anne talks of her love towards his housband, and when I read about the Background of the poem I discovered that Anne got married at the age of 16. Also, the fact that Anne talks too much about God’s will in the second poem, leads me to spiritual growth. Both poems represent something in my life, like: the burning of the house represent problems that may happen to me and Anne’s reaction that is thinking that every thing happens for a reason. My view of certain problems changed when I read “Upon The Burning Of Our House”,

The emphasis of Bradstreet and Edwards belief in God is what their poems are formed around. They both use very different language while trying to get across the same message. The difference between the two writers is that Edwards uses a very disciplinary yet effective tone. Aside from Edwards writing, Bradstreet uses a very smooth, understanding tone. Both of them live a puritan lifestyle which means that they constantly look for signs, to confirm whether or not they’re going to heaven or hell. Anne Bradstreet and John edwards demonstrate their faith in God and truancy two their religion using different writing styles.

Edwards is a very harsh and bipolar writer. God is coming off as a person with alot of anger. In the first stanza of the last paragraph by Edwards ¨Sinner in the hands of Angry God¨ it says ¨and now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day where in christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open¨. In this stanza the author is all of a sudden making it seem like God is taking a big turn and like he is welcoming you. On the other hand Bradstreet who

Jonathan Edwards was an intelligent man of God who served as a preacher. As an author, he wrote popular sermons and other serious works on religion, metaphysics, and philosophy. Edwards’ style of writing is quite different from other authors in this unit because unlike the others he gives