Admiration of Anne Bradstreets values as compared to those of Ben Franklin and Johnathan Edwards The relationships that people have with others has a severe impact on that person’s life‚ albeit many are good‚ some‚ though‚ are bad. How we choose to form‚ maintain and use these relationships is up to us‚ just as what they mean is up to us too. I will show the relationships of some writers and how they treat others‚ as an important value to me. Three writers of our era‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Jonathan
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Some Verses” by Anne Bradstreet stops herself from mourning over the loss of her possessions. She does that a couple times‚ her thoughts about her losses change as well as her belief in god and how she portrays him. The reader can see Bradstreet stop her mourning or begin to cope with what had happened in lines 14-20 and again in line 37. Before line 14 it is clear that she is mourning her losses‚ especially when Bradstreet says “And to my God my heart did cry‚ To strengthen me in my distress” (lines
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Anne Bradstreet & Jonathan Edwards may believe in the same Puritan views‚ nevertheless there comes a time where they differ in what they believe‚ such as their religious beliefs. Though both Puritans‚ religious beliefs separate Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards due to the fact that Bradstreet believes that God is morally right while Edwards considers God as supreme and greater than all others. Anne Bradstreet’s writing shows that she believes in a God that is fair and loving that does things with
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conquered unknown lands. He “defeated and beheaded a succession of three Turkish officers in single combat” (Smith 58). Anne Bradstreet was a house wife that lived from 1612 to 1672 but was no less brave by showing her work when it was looked bad upon to do so by women. John Smith is a
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#Puritan#firstfeminist#sarcasm#wecannotallsucceedwhenhalfofusareheldback Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan woman who could possibly be the first feminist. “The Prologue” was written to introduce her other works but she also used this opportunity to express her feelings of oppression by men and the Puritan beliefs. She uses sarcasm and a critical tone to make her points. Though many have supposed that this poem was a confession that Bradstreet felt the same way about her poetry‚ in reality it was a slap in the
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have very different views on God and Christianity. Anne Bradstreet from the 1600’s has a humble understanding of God‚ while Johnathon Edwards‚ 1700’s‚ has a way to instill fear into his audience and getting them to convert to christianity. Both have two different ways of spreading the word of God. They pull emotions from the reader during and after they read. Bradstreet and Edwards both have very conflicting views on the Christian religion. Bradstreet is a humble servant of the Christian faith while
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Anne Bradstreet: "The Flesh and the Spirit" Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northampton shire‚ England. Anne along with her husband and parents emigrated to America with a Puritan group. They settled in Massachusetts. She became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. However‚ the idea of the women writer was not popular at this time. It was quite rare and uncommon thing to find a woman writing poems or essays. She was also a daughter of a Puritan
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2014 To My Dear and Loving Husband : A Secular and Spiritual Writing Anne Bradstreet’s poem‚ To My Dear and Loving Husband ‚ reveals and strengthens the connection the speaker innately feels between her Puritan and secular life. The speaker‚ and presumably Bradstreet herself‚ do not seem to differentiate between earthly and Godly experiences‚ but instead see them as intrinsically intertwined‚ and essential to the relationship between human beings and God. Bradstreet expresses this notion by entwining her words of
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and mother. Puritans were a group of people that reformed religion which adhered to religion‚ moral and social order. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan that wrote poetry reflecting on what she had experienced as a woman‚ even though during this era women should not challenge societal norms. She wrote many poems that contained subliminal content within them. One poem that Bradstreet wrote‚ “In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess‚ Queen Elizabeth” was to the late Queen Elizabeth. She expresses her
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varied greatly between its public and private members during the 17th and 18th century. Anne Bradstreet shows the private side of the Puritan faith in her poem and Jonathan Edwards shows the public side of the Puritan faith. Bradstreet was a very successful colonial poet during the mid to late 17th century‚ while Edwards was a Puritan preacher who led the Great Awakening about seventy years after Bradstreet‚ in the 1730s and 1740s. Bradstreet’s poem “Upon the Burning of Our House‚” written in 1666
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