PDF-TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND Anne Bradstreet Bradstreet Anne Englishborn American

In 1647 she became the first AngloAmerican poet to be published in England Both her father and husband became governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony To My Dear And Loving Husband 1678 One of four poems addressed to her husband in a posthumous ed. Writing Gender. CROSSCURRENTS. A current which cuts across another, evoking fluidity, movement, intersections, perhaps contradictory encounters or even antagonist oppositions.. Overview. Gender, Feminism and Women Writers. …send people to an eternal Hell.. A Loving God Would Not…. …send people to an eternal Hell.. … tell you to hate your parents and yourself. . A Loving God Would Not…. …send people to an eternal Hell.. A loving . Harvest . Blesses . with peace!. Questions: . Who is it that we can never bless? . Who is it that we believe God can never grow in?. A loving . Harvest . 2. Shares Love!. Questions: . Born 1612, died 1672. First poet and female writer published in British American Colonies. Grew up in a cultured and well-educated English household (extremely well-educated for her time, especially for a woman). (Part . 5 . of “A Heart that Pleases God”). NR. SV . 2 Samuel . 12:9-11. Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your . 1630s-1750s. What’s a Puritan?. Puritans known as the Separatists split from the Church of England over disagreements and came to New England for religious freedom. Allegiance to God/the group, not the king. Discuss what you know about…. The Young Puritan’s Code. Read the text with a partner paraphrasing each resolution in the margin.. Do we see any of these resolutions in today’s society?. Discussing The Puritan Code. Evidence. Covenant . Theology. Puritan communities were established in order to aid individuals in achieving grace. . Economically . speaking, Puritan societies were to work together and individual wealth was seen as decadent and corrupt…CHRISTMAS was banned!!!!! . The Speaker . One of the most difficult concepts in the study of poetry is that of the . speaker. . . The speaker is roughly equivalent to the . narrator. of fictional works. It is a character or psychological persona that the poet constructs to deliver the words of the poem. . Read . Of Plymouth Plantation. (pages 104-110). Make a chart of (this chart will go in a homework packet) what Puritans were like/valued in each of these categories. Lifestyle. Religion. Families. Education. Stairway to Heaven. . Jonathan Edwards. . . . Anne Bradstreet. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-bradstreet. . http://www.jonathan-edwards.org/. Think about something you own that you treasure. How would you feel if you lost that cherished object?. Think about how you would feel if your home was destroyed. What would be your thoughts? Your emotions?. AGE @ MARRIAGE “Under Jewish law a woman was a thing; she was the possession of her husband, just as much as his house or his flocks of his material goods were. She had no legal right whatever. For instance, under Jewish law, a husband could divorce his wife for any cause, while a wife had no rights whatever in the initiation of divorce. In Greek society a respectable woman lived a life of entire seclusion. She never appeared on the streets alone, not even to go marketing. She lived in the women’s apartments and did not join her menfolk even for meals Puritan Meditation. Meditation for the Puritans was central to all the means of grace or what we might call spiritual disciplines. Meditation enhanced and “improved” public worship, sermons, Bible study, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, prayer,...