Professor Shaw
2/16/17
ENG 105
Essay one
How does Anne Bradstreet incorporate the Puritan plain writing style in her poems? In the Puritan culture, there is a form of writing style called the “plain writing style”. Some Puritans use this style because they believed that it would help them to express themselves clearly according to their religious beliefs. The definition of this writing style is defined as “a type of writing in which uncomplicated sentences and ordinary words are used to make simple, direct statements” (Puritan Plain Style, 1). Anne Bradstreet’s poems are a great example of this writing style and she uses it throughout most of the poems that she has written. The poems that include this plain writing style include,