Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards lives during the Puritan period. Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 is a poem by Anne Bradstreet and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a sermon by Jonathan Edwards. These two people are born in the same time period but have two different images and views on god. Anne Bradstreet has a different way style of delivering her message through her poems compared to Edwards. Bradstreet’s style has more of rhyming the ends of her words and she always has six stanzas in her poem for an example “ In the silent night when I rest I took, For sorrow near I did not look…”(line 1) while Edward’s sermons are more repetitive and uses harsh words to convert others for instances “... thus easy is it for God when he pleases he cast his enemies down to hell…”(line 2) Edwards is very straightforward with his words. Bradstreet is more descriptive with her words. …show more content…
Edwards and Bradstreet have different views on God. Edward uses fear and guilt to make others worship God. Edwards says God as an angry God and if any human ever did something wrong, God would send them down to hell for example , “Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great number that are now on earth; yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell.”(line 8) However, Bradstreet believes that everything is god’s plans, in her poem she mentions that God gives and takes “ And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust: Yea, so