The Poem 'To The Honorable T. H.'

In recollection of the Puritan time, in the poem “To the Honorable T.H., Esq; on the Death of His Daughter” to me it’s Neoclassical because in that time a letter in the memory of someone would be Neoclassical, not Puritan. The reader should be able to detect which era this poem came from by the literature between Puritan and Neoclassical. Puritans literature was more in the context of the bible and by strictly by God’s faith. Neoclassical literature was more well-rounded to me as if has so many more elements such as allusions, aphorisms and wit. The poem also has similarities to Puritan and Neoclassical era which I will explain more below.

The poem gives its Puritan characteristic, by the way the words are and the vocabulary itself. In the Puritan time era which is the 16th century. An example of Calvinism; the belief that everyone life is already determine from God before there are born and that the daughter is in a better place now. Puritans reference God more often than none and in the poem the father didn’t really talk about God because they know it’s all God’s plans or divine election which God makes his own decisions. It’s not like Puritans to question God’s …show more content…
For the paragraph 30-40 that’s are in quotations staring with “Lo” and ending with “joy” sounds like that whole part of that passage can be a quotation from a bible which the Puritans lived by religiously. Puritans text style, they hardly used any fictional writing dialog, they did not believe that writing was for entertainment but was for instructive teaching. The context of the poem was more fiction which favors Neoclassical because the father said, “she joins her spouse, and smiles upon the tomb”. In reality, it impossible for that to happen, which would fall under Neoclassical not Puritan. For neoclassical text style, it has some type of sapphire to it and it didn’t have it in the