Mayflower Compact By Anne Stewart Analysis

In society there are two different contracts that people live with. The first being a contract with an employer. These contracts limit a person from doing certain things within a company. If they violate something on that contract, they will suffer the consequences by getting fired or getting suspended without pay. The other is an invisible contract with God that put our actions in our own hands. If our actions get carried away, we will pay for it in the afterlife. These two contracts are brought upon within the texts of the “Mayflower Compact” and by William Bradford and the many poems of Anne Bradstreet.
Anne Bradstreet’s, explains the contract between her and God is difficult. The ultimate goal is to purify the human body for everlasting life with God. Within her poems she describes how life is short, how our actions are bigger than we think. Then, William Bradford descries to the people of the new world the many different actions and responsibilities that they all have upon …show more content…
Bradstreet contemplates the glory of nature. She compares the wonders of nature to the glory of God. She looks at the simple things like the sun or the rivers and thinks about how delightful it is. She then thinks about the natural wonder of how God created these glorious things of nature she is grateful. She writes "I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, / If so much excellence abide below, / How excellent is he that dwells on high? / Whose power and beauty by his works we know" (poemhunter.com). When I look at this quote I think that it is another part of our contract with God. Bradstreet proclaims that nature is beautiful and we cannot destroy what is beautiful, if we do God will know and when we look back on life it might come back and haunt you. Anne, being a Puritan, thinks that the value of our life on Earth is important because there is a better life waiting when we