Anne Bradstreet:
The main themes of Bradstreet’s poems seems to be surrounded around sickness and death, humility, feminism, nature, matrimonial love, and motherhood. For example, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a poem that shows her uncontrollable love for her husband. A line that shows this is, “My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense” (Anne Bradstreet 120). Another poem “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August,1665, Being a Year and a Half Old” is surrounded around death.
I think that Anne Bradstreet’s poems does reflect her background as a Puritan and how her life wasn’t easy. In her poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” tells us about when her house burns down and she cries out to God to not leave her helpless
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The sermon is powerful but yet terrifying to any sinner because of the everlasting punishment they would receive for not being on the path of God. As Edward says, “Their foot shall slide in due time” tells us that if you continue on the unrighteous path you will be prone to fall and dammed to ultimate destruction (Johnathan Edwards 209). I believe Edwards’s main purpose for this sermon is to warn his congregation and the many sinners around to repent for their sins and look to God for forgiveness before you have reached your last fall. “They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell. They do not only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between Him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to hell”(Johnathan Edwards 211). This quote from Edwards’ sermon clearly tells us if you reject God you will be casted into