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    Huswifery by Edward Taylor Make me‚ O Lord‚ Thy spinning wheel complete‚ Thy holy word my distaff make for me‚ Make mine affections Thy swfit flyers neat‚ And make my soul Thy holy spool to be. My conversation make to be Thy reel‚ And reel the yarn thereon spun of Thy wheel. Make me Thy loom then‚ knit therein this twin; And make Thy holy spirit‚ Lord‚ wind quills; Then weave the web Thyself. The yarn is fine. Edward Taylor was a Puritan ‘frontier minister” and doctor in western Massachusetts

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    For essay number one I am going to discuss the changing views of man’s place in relationship to his God and to his earthly existence as shown in the Puritan poetry by Taylor and Bryant. Using the poems "Huswifery" and "To a Waterfowl" to discuss the views mentioned earlier. Both of these poems are very interesting poems and also are the use of nature in them that both the poets use. They are both religious in there own way by the way mention God or the Lord doing something for the creature to help

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    In Taylor’s poem Huswifery and Bradstreet’s epistle To My Dear and Loving Husband both use metaphors and rhyme scheme to discuss the role of servitude of a wife. Taylor uses both metaphors and rhyme scheme to emphasize his point that just as a wife works to serve her husband‚ god will help those who desire to exalt him. Taylor throughout his poem uses the metaphor of a loom to compare himself to the spinning wheel to demand to God that Taylor be used‚ much like a man would demand his wife to do

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    General information The way Australians talk is peppered with many words that are unique to our version of English. The history of Australian English starts with kangaroo (1770) and Captain James Cook’s glossary of local words used in negotiations with the Endeavour River tribes. The language was pidgin. Australian English- is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia. Although English has no official status in the Constitution‚ Australian English is Australia

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    Taylor vs. Bradstreet

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    Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” and Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” both are written in Puritan plain style‚ however Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” displays a more puritanical message. These poets use apostrophe and metaphors to thoroughly describe the subject in which they were writing. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a poem that portrays Anne Bradstreet’s thoughts on her marriage. While Bradstreet writes about her love for her husband‚ Edward Taylor writes indirectly about his love

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    interprets this sentence to a deeper meaning‚ this is saying that if humans are saved‚ they will live with God forever in heaven. After all‚ Anne Bradstreet is trying to express the relationship between God and humans. Similarly‚ in Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery‚” he also infers the same idea. Edward Taylor begins with‚ “Make me‚ O Lord‚ thy Spinning Wheele‚”

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    Today I am going to describe how Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” and Anne Bradstreet “To My Dear and Loving Husband” address the same topic. I am also going to explain why Edward Taylors “Huswifery” has a more traditionally Puritanical message. They both are so similar‚ but have so many differences at the same time. That is flaw that wasn’t thought about the creation of these puritan stories. Bradstreet’s later poems‚ such as “To My Dear and Loving Husband‚” are more personal‚ expressing her feelings

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    his work. He was one of the only poets of the 1700s to give insight on the beliefs of the Puritans without becoming too emotionally vulnerable. Edward Taylor used his metaphysical writing style to enforce the Puritan beliefs through symbolism in “Huswifery‚” “Upon Wedlock‚ and Death of Children‚” and “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly.” Taylor was born in Sketchley‚ Leicestershire‚ England to his farmer parents William and Margaret Taylor in the year 1642. Before he turned eighteen‚ both of Taylor’s

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    confusing art‚ incapable of being fathomed by an average person. Poetry is written in the vernacular which typically becomes outdated and therefore unfamiliar. With regards to Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery”‚ this is not the case. Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor use two different writing styles to compare a similar topic in drastically contrasting ways. Anne Bradstreet often pursues an informal or slang writing style in her poem‚ using common words

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    Edward Taylor

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    Among the many types of poetry in early American literature‚ metaphysical poetry was a style in which Edward Taylor chose to write. Edward Taylor was born in 1642 in England into a Puritan background. Metaphysical poetry was first introduced in 1744 by Samuel Johnson. Before Edward Taylor was even born‚ other great poets such as John Donne‚ George Herbert‚ Henry Vaughn‚ and Andrew Marvell had already lived and died. Although all of these poets had already came before him‚ Edward Taylor became the

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