Part 1: Short Answer 1. Identify and explain an emotion that Bradstreet expresses in her poem that any mother might have. She is sad that her children are growing up and leaving home. 2. Read Bradstreet’s biography. List two hardships she endured throughout her life. Then‚ in at least two sentences‚ explain how these hardships might have influenced her poem "In Reference to Her Children." All colonists were fighting for survival due to lack of food‚ the climate‚ ect. She was afflicted
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Jonathan Edwards was a minister who gave the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Ao” to his congregation. Edwards did this to connect to his people on a personal level‚ The theme of Edwards sermon is for people not to sin. His writing was very dark and intense to say the least. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the “Minister’s Black Veil.” Hawthorn did this to show how something as simple as a black veil can change someone’s life. Out of the two pieces of writing jonathan Edwards had the stronger of
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lives and literature. As Puritan influence decreased in the late 17th century‚ the Age of Reason blossomed‚ shifting literature from teachings
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Of Plymouth Plantation‚ and Jonathan Edwards’ sermon‚ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” show two very Puritan points of view‚ but how the points of view are shown is extremely different. Bradford’s journal shows how a group of Puritans traveled to America and their journey in survival‚ all by God’s good graces. The sermon by Edwards tries to show those who have not stayed with the Puritan religion that without God‚ they are a disgrace to Him. Bradford and Edwards both have a main goal of showing
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In Jonathan Edwards’s "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"‚ the usage of rhetoric and figurative language is used to illustrate its arguments and to help persuade its audience. In the sermon‚ Edwards attempts to warn his audience against living a life of sin or risk suffering the wrath of God. One of the way Edwards convinces people is by using imagery. He emphasizes the fierceness of God to stir fear in his audience and describes in detail the horrible consequences they would have to endure.
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Jonathan Edwards and John Winthrop both wrote and preached sermons that had a great impact on the Puritans. These American early writers had very little in common; however‚ they both believed significantly in the straightforward values and ethics of Christianity. The alteration between the two men and these sermons most likely stemmed from the time frame the sermons were written. Winthrop wrote on the verge of a new religious and community experience. Edwards felt the ideals of the new world that
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John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity‚” Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse‚ and Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World connect and juxtapose world events during the 1600s. Winthrop supposedly presented his “Model of Christian Charity” sermon on the Arabella en route from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While the Mayflower Compact was not a sermon‚ it connects to Winthrop’s sermon in two ways. First‚ both are significant to the ships they were presented on‚ the Mayflower and Arabella
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1730-1745 In the 1730’s the Great Awakening exploded‚ religion rose to power once again and people began to get disconnected from their scientific ways of thinking. Jonathan Edwards was the catalyst to the Great Awakening‚ Edwards preached that not only doing good deeds will lead one to salvation‚ but faith in God will too‚ and he reiterated that faith in God was always above just doing good deeds. There wasn’t just a religious revolution at this time‚ but a social revolution was stirring‚ with
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Anne Bradstreet - Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th‚ 1666 Anne Bradstreet was the first woman in America who became a writer. She received an excellent education and wrote about politics‚ history‚ medicine and theology. This poem has caught my attention. In this poem‚ Anne Bradstreet tells the readers that her house was burnt. There is only material loss and she accepts losing everything with quite calm. She justifies herself using the figure of God. Only God is
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Rebecca Hart 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
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