battled with English authorities over the right to practice their religion for which they were often punished physically and socially•

They imagined a new world where they could create their own society away from religious persecution

Grace The miracle by which God grants some people the ability to love truly• People who were touched by Grace were transformed by God to love without envy, vanity or lust in their hearts

Plainness• Puritans wanted to return to a simpler way of life without ornament. They wanted to live without earthly or material desires.• They chose to worship in small wooden buildings instead of ornate cathedrals

3. Divine Mission• The puritans truly believed that they were on a mission from God to create a new world and religious community when they came to America• In their minds, God had specifically chosen the Puritans to create a new Zion and to be an example for mankind to follow

records regarding their daily lives where many Puritan people tried to capture their journey to achieving God’s grace

popular form of Puritan writing in which many famous Puritan era poets like Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor expressed their anxiety and wonder of living in the new settlements

fierce and apprised Puritan beliefs; possessed traits of puritan writing including simple verse and plain style•

Simple words in clear order• Puritan’s believed that God’s word did not need to be improved• Suited to the New World: bare and raw without ornamentation•

also known as the Age of Faith 1600-1700

“a person with extremely ill moral beliefs”

first AMERICAN writing to influence American literature & imagination

Puritan beliefs influence what they wrote such as human beings were sinful and deserved to die unless saved by God.

Writings were God-centered, about spiritual personal feelings, self examinations, and quest/road for salvation Writings reveal they sought to follow God’s will & had a strict moral code.

For example metaphors, similes, etc. used to help give a deeper meaning to common sayings and make them touching, powerful and direct.

writings should be useful and a resource to understand the Bible on a deeper level in their lives.

Anne Bradstreet & Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, & John Winthrop

satisfy a thirst

something given or done in return for something else, repayment

in many ways

continue hardship, persist

1612-1672 Arrived from England with her husband Simon in 1630 at 18 years old;moved to Massachusetts to start anew in America

considered to be the first collection of original poetry written in colonial America

Wrote for herself, not for publication;in 1850, her brother John Woodbridge published in England her poems

Wore simple dark clothes; had sparse furnishings; wrote without ornamentation

helped the Puritan poets convey ideas about their religious faith and their personal lives

Our house is our nest.

is one that draws the comparison out and compares the two things at length and in many ways

Our house wraps our family in a warm embrace.

is a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis. Our house means more to us than all the money in the world.

biblical allusions

Inverted syntax— sentence structure in which the expected order of words is reversed

words that were once in common use but that are now considered old-fashioned or out-of-date