The puritans were a group of people that in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries who sought to purify the church of England from its catholic practices. The men and women had different roles as puritans in the society. The men thought that women are not that important in their society. However, women were just as important as men in any society. The women had many roles as part of the puritan society:
• Sometimes in special situation women were viewed intellectually beneath male children.
• The puritan women cannot speak in the church and the had to stay silent.
• Women could not lead discussion except in all female prayer group.
• They believed that anyone should be able to read the bible even women.
• A woman role was limited only …show more content…
she persevered and had eight children, all of whom lived to adulthood but only one of whom outlived their mother. Besides family good fortune, she was also successful in her poetic career. Few in the colonies of New England had time to compose poetry, especially women with eight children. In fact, women did not write and published poetry in the sixteenth or the seventeenth century. But Bradstreet was so prevailed in her art that she is credited with the first published book of poetry from the New World: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in New England.
Bradstreet’s fortunes took a turn for the worse in later life. While she had success in childbearing, her daughter in law Mercy, wife of her oldest son Samuel, lost four children in rapid succession and then died giving birth. In the midst of these losses, Bradstreet’s home burned to the ground. The elegies she wrote for her grandchildren and Mercy and the poem she wrote on the burning of her house represent the work of someone who, in a world that increasingly featured uncertainty and suffering, longed for a permanent …show more content…
To detach from these deeply felt associations was, as the poem “Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house”, very difficult. People in her situation would either hold on to god stronger or they would let go and disbelieve in god. However, Anne believes in god got stronger and we can see that in her poems.
In the poem “Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house” and in many later poems. Bradstreet had to struggle to accept the reality of their world. The idea of “a heavenly permanent home” gave Anne the only hope, and the trust in god made it possible to accept god’s will. By selecting these difficult moments, she wrote about, Anne intended to teach her readers the redemptive possibility of suffering. The ultimate goal of a Puritan was to live a redeemed life, and the ultimate goal of a Puritan writer extended beyond personal expression to confirm the faithfulness of
• Sometimes in special situation women were viewed intellectually beneath male children.
• The puritan women cannot speak in the church and the had to stay silent.
• Women could not lead discussion except in all female prayer group.
• They believed that anyone should be able to read the bible even women.
• A woman role was limited only …show more content…
she persevered and had eight children, all of whom lived to adulthood but only one of whom outlived their mother. Besides family good fortune, she was also successful in her poetic career. Few in the colonies of New England had time to compose poetry, especially women with eight children. In fact, women did not write and published poetry in the sixteenth or the seventeenth century. But Bradstreet was so prevailed in her art that she is credited with the first published book of poetry from the New World: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in New England.
Bradstreet’s fortunes took a turn for the worse in later life. While she had success in childbearing, her daughter in law Mercy, wife of her oldest son Samuel, lost four children in rapid succession and then died giving birth. In the midst of these losses, Bradstreet’s home burned to the ground. The elegies she wrote for her grandchildren and Mercy and the poem she wrote on the burning of her house represent the work of someone who, in a world that increasingly featured uncertainty and suffering, longed for a permanent …show more content…
To detach from these deeply felt associations was, as the poem “Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house”, very difficult. People in her situation would either hold on to god stronger or they would let go and disbelieve in god. However, Anne believes in god got stronger and we can see that in her poems.
In the poem “Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house” and in many later poems. Bradstreet had to struggle to accept the reality of their world. The idea of “a heavenly permanent home” gave Anne the only hope, and the trust in god made it possible to accept god’s will. By selecting these difficult moments, she wrote about, Anne intended to teach her readers the redemptive possibility of suffering. The ultimate goal of a Puritan was to live a redeemed life, and the ultimate goal of a Puritan writer extended beyond personal expression to confirm the faithfulness of