As the sun prepared to rise on the tenth day of February in the year 1675, life for the settlers of the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts was about to change forever. One of those settlers was a wife and mother by the name of Mary Rowlandson, soon to be taken prisoner by the aggressors, who would spend the next eleven weeks as a captive. Her story, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, is the harsh tale of struggle, loss, and hunger. Mary Rowlandson, like many of the settlers of the Puritan colony of Lancaster, was a devout Christian. Mary Rowlandson’s recollection of captivity is a story of the sovereignty of God, faith based hope, and the strength in perseverance.
The establishment of colonies in the New World opened opportunities for different religious groups to freely practice their beliefs without influence from England. Though this was a chance at a new beginning, it was not always smooth sailing for those that braved the journey over to a vast and desolate wilderness. Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Anne Bradstreet’s To My Dear Children, and Phillis Wheatley’s To the University of Cambridge in New England show, how women with different backgrounds and perspectives lived by their faith in a world that is full of hardships and uncertainty.
Historians have identified that New England contains a “family labor” system, and it was “inherently cyclical” (220). Couples begin their marriage by “raising workers and their last bereft of help”, and eventually reaching the “harvest time”, where the couple is no longer as productive as before, but now their children have grown (220). When Martha was reaching her sixties, she had already passed the peak of her live as a mistress and as a midwife. Her fatigue no longer allows her to handle too many birth deliveries and house chores, and her sons and daughters have grown up, and have married to start another cycle in the system of family labor. Ulrich also saw the diminishing status of Martha as a mistress a “subtle passing of authority from one generation to one another”
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickison shared some similarities they often dealt with the same kind of theme. Whitman and Dickison has had their own unique styles of how they would write. Death was the topic that both writer had a strong connection with. Religion was another common topic these two had in common. Beyond the themes they also were so well known for their unique voice and style Both poets also lived and wrote in the northeastern United States in the later half of the nineteenth century..
Now that she is divorced and with a child, she now possesses a strong distaste for the wrongful stereotypes that are set around a “broken” family. Kingsolver’s blatant dislike for those who consider families that end in a divorce as “failed” and not finished is made evident by her angry and defiant tone throughout the essay. One of her main focus points for her essay is the archaic idealism behind the “Family of Dolls.” She then explains this reasoning by revealing the reasoning behind its origin, which was to convince women to give up their jobs for the men returning from war. Kingsolver supports this point by stating in paragraph twenty-two, “ A booming economy required a mobile labor force and demanded that
Page 114 states, “She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling, ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now…”. The main wedge in their marriage were the parlor walls. Due to the technology offered, people were seperated. Such separation gives people little compassion and care for each other.
To begin, it’s important for the two poets to led the readers to understand the context about death behind their poems and how it has inspired them to write about it. Throughout Dickinson’s life, she has experienced death in many ways and forms: with that, death has made a great impact in her writings. In Dickinson’s poem, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –,” Dickinson looks into the physical procedure of dying and how it affects not just herself, but others as well. When Dickinson was dying on her deathbed, she describes the fly as a figure of the theme death itself, as the wings of the fly basically cuts off the speaker of the poem. For Whitman, he has experienced death in the time of the Civil War.
Religion is undoubtedly something that is incredibly important for many people. It at times serves as a source of comfort, a sense of purpose, or even a sense of belonging. Because of this, it has been a common origin of inspiration for many poets regardless of origin and time. Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson are no exception. Both reference religious beliefs and God numerous times throughout their works, but they do so in different ways.
Craftivism Craftivism is the power of getting a significant message across regarding different issues like, environmental, social or political causes. Craftivism is practiced in a peaceful manner through activities such as crocheting hats for chemotherapy patients and the less fortune. Craftivism can be displayed in places such as parks, railings or anywhere a cable tie can be attached. The thought process behind these issues involved is important as it requests the use of one’s time and also ones very own hands. Craftivism, the term itself was established by Betsy Greer in 2003 (REFERENCE In LIST); who sometimes can be referred to as the godmother of Craftivism.
Emily Dickinson viewed society in a negative way and that society should not force everyone to be a part of it. She believed that society was not powerful or a good thing
Emily’s poems are often stressful and depressing while Whitman’s poetry is graceful and candid. In addition, Whitman’s poetic style is opened while Dickinson is rather private and
Emily Dickinson had a strong cold feeling toward society, so much so that she shut herself in a room and focused on expressing her emotions through poetry. At the
Artwork is all around the world, but is it really worth the resources and time for it? In the essay “Is Art a Waste of Time?” by Ryhs Southan he discusses the purpose of art and explains the group, Effective Altruism. The main argument is that Effective Altruism do not agree with using resources and time on artwork. Effective Altruism is against artwork the resources, and time it uses up that do not contribute to the poor.
Dickinson and Whitman have revolutionized poetry eternally. Emily Dickinson’s writing shows her introverted side, she found comfort in being reclusive. Her writing clearly depicts that certain works of her will not be meant for everyone, rather
This thesis will be dealing with the life and work of two most prominent women writers of the 19th and 20th century, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. For better understanding of complex topics their work reflects, I will describe important events from their biographies. Although Dickinson and Plath lived in two different centuries they were connected by a common thread, the position of women in the male-dominated world. Not only that they wanted for women to have the same rights as men, but also to be free from the roles of housewives and mothers which were imposed on them by a conservative society. They fought for these rights in only way they could, by writing.
