Back in the colonial times was very different from now, it was pretty harsh times considering how strongly everyone at that time believed in evil and religion. There were many writers who wrote about this time in history and expressed how it was back then. Many felt at that time that God and evil was everywhere, which frightened them. This fear and the thought that people were consorting with the devil or possessed caused a lot of suffering. The Salem Witch Trials was one of the many tragedies that befell the colonists due to their fears as depicted in Cotton Mather’s writings of the Salem Witch Trials. This fear and belief that the colonists held also led to the puritans written in William Bradford’s writing’s, where they thought because of
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For Anne Bradstreet’s poems she writes on how God is present in nature and that through presenting her writings through the form of meditation that the trees, land, and the many small these we see and hear are proof that god is there. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem contemplations she shows the method of meditation in her writings, like for the first part which is the composition of place. In her poem the first thing she says sets a place and gives in an image of where she is talking about. She says "some time now past in the autumnal tide, when Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed, the trees all richly xlad, yet void of pride, were golded o 'er by his rich golden head."(Bradstreet, Norton Anthology) The second part which is commenting on things seen and heard she says layer on in the poem "the higher on the glistering sun I gazed, whose beans shaded by the leafy tree; the more I looked, the more I grew amazed."(Bradstreet, Norton Anthology) And finally the last thing of meditation is the higher perception of divine truth in which she states "sometimes in eden fair he seems to be, sees glorious adam there made lord of all, fancies the apple, dangle on the tree, that turned his sovereign to a naked thrall. Who liked a miscreants driven from that place, to get his bread with pain and sweat of face.”(Bradstreet, Norton
For Anne Bradstreet’s poems she writes on how God is present in nature and that through presenting her writings through the form of meditation that the trees, land, and the many small these we see and hear are proof that god is there. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem contemplations she shows the method of meditation in her writings, like for the first part which is the composition of place. In her poem the first thing she says sets a place and gives in an image of where she is talking about. She says "some time now past in the autumnal tide, when Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed, the trees all richly xlad, yet void of pride, were golded o 'er by his rich golden head."(Bradstreet, Norton Anthology) The second part which is commenting on things seen and heard she says layer on in the poem "the higher on the glistering sun I gazed, whose beans shaded by the leafy tree; the more I looked, the more I grew amazed."(Bradstreet, Norton Anthology) And finally the last thing of meditation is the higher perception of divine truth in which she states "sometimes in eden fair he seems to be, sees glorious adam there made lord of all, fancies the apple, dangle on the tree, that turned his sovereign to a naked thrall. Who liked a miscreants driven from that place, to get his bread with pain and sweat of face.”(Bradstreet, Norton