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Anne Bradstreet And Edwards Compare And Contrast

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were a Puritan author? Well you'll learn about Anne Bradstreet, a married poet in the 1600 and A ghastly preacher/author Jonathon Edwards. who have many differences but looking more in depth you can tell how they might be closer related than you think.nAnne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are both Puritan authors who believed in the same God, but preached him in very different ways. Jonathon Edwards put fear into people to make them believe in God and his religion but Anne Bradstreet's view on God was based on love and trust. Bradstreet is a married woman and a poet who is widely known for writing poems such as To My Dear and Loving Husband and The Burning of Our House. Edwards is a preacher who has written one of …show more content…

Both of these authors envision God and use similar literary devices in their writings.
God for Puritans is the most important thing for their religion, but Bradstreet and Edwards’ outlooks on God were completely different. For Bradstreet, God is a gentle caretaker who spreads peace and love. This care is heard as Bradstreet describes, ”The flame consumes my dwelling place/.And when I could no longer look/I blest his grace that gave and took/That laid my goods now in the dust ” (BRadstreet 11-12). This stanza shows how though she lost everything,she knows that God has something in store for her and her family she presupposes that this is God's will. Bradstreet believes in the positive side of God.However, Edwards' beliefs contrast Bradstreet's beliefs and proves that God is someone to be feared especially if you don't believe in what Edwards believes. For example, Edwards threatens, “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the

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