A battle between one At times an individual might find themselves speaking to oneself as if there was two voices in one body. One might say to do as you please, and the other might be in opposition to do what is morally right. In most occasions individuals follow their instincts instead of what their heart is telling them. In the poem written by Anne Bradstreet “The Flesh and the Spirit” foreshadows a dispute between two sisters that disagree with what is right and what is wrong. The author starts off by describing flesh and spirit as two typical sisters arguing to almost anything. They are portrayed as two different characters one leans towards an angelic and the other typified as a demonic character but it is to show that there is an inner
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Illustrating that no amount of wealth was going to shift her way of thinking and pursuing her faith. Spirit was all for living in the way of how god wanted. She explains that by living in the puritan lifestyle there was a place that they could acquire. Spirit remarks a place typified as heaven and she describes “the streets are thereof transparent Gold” (224). Coming to the conclusion that whatever the world had there was to be much greater goods in heaven. The recompense would be worth it, if she lived religiously. She later describes them two from being polar opposites. Revealing that they came from different origins. Flesh was made from Adam from dust of the earth and Spirit was from heaven, for just as God was sent to do great works. In her poem Bradstreet states, “The hidden manna I do eat, The word of life it is my meat” (224). There is great significance including this stanza in her poem. Manna was something that was given to the Israelites when they demanded meat, for in exchange God gave them oats that had a honey flavor to them. When she says the word of life is my meat is in comparison to what flesh would eat. In a certain era meat was forbidden to eat because it was something that only sinners consumed. They believed that animals that walked on four feet were unclean. Even to this comparison that she makes between the two, for one will dine wheat’s with a King and flesh will feast on unclean roaming animals on earth by
Illustrating that no amount of wealth was going to shift her way of thinking and pursuing her faith. Spirit was all for living in the way of how god wanted. She explains that by living in the puritan lifestyle there was a place that they could acquire. Spirit remarks a place typified as heaven and she describes “the streets are thereof transparent Gold” (224). Coming to the conclusion that whatever the world had there was to be much greater goods in heaven. The recompense would be worth it, if she lived religiously. She later describes them two from being polar opposites. Revealing that they came from different origins. Flesh was made from Adam from dust of the earth and Spirit was from heaven, for just as God was sent to do great works. In her poem Bradstreet states, “The hidden manna I do eat, The word of life it is my meat” (224). There is great significance including this stanza in her poem. Manna was something that was given to the Israelites when they demanded meat, for in exchange God gave them oats that had a honey flavor to them. When she says the word of life is my meat is in comparison to what flesh would eat. In a certain era meat was forbidden to eat because it was something that only sinners consumed. They believed that animals that walked on four feet were unclean. Even to this comparison that she makes between the two, for one will dine wheat’s with a King and flesh will feast on unclean roaming animals on earth by