Native American vs Puritan Literature

Puritan Literature

Native American Literature

Navaho Origin Legend

I Went To Kill the Deer

I Have Killed the Deer

Prayer at Sunrise

The World on a Turtle's Back

Author to Her Book

Edward Taylor

Upon the Burning of Our House

Huswifery

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

Anne Bradstreet

Jonathan Edwards

William Bradford

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

A Generalle Historie of Virginia

Cotton Mather

John Smith

The Wonders of an Invisible World

Puritans vs. Pilgrims

Pilgrims were separatists

Puritans- reform the Church of England

Puritans were non-separatists

Attributes Natives for helping Puritans get closer to God

Tells John Smith's adventures with Natives (ivory compass first time, Pocahontas second time)

Explains why people died (shortage of food, etc)

Use of conceit

Materialistic

Founded Jamestown in 1607

Pocahontas legend

Known as adventurer, difficult, braggart

Rhyme scheme: unique in Taylor's poems

Conceit: spiders wasps and flies as social classes

Discrimination between rich and poor, upper class and lower class, powerful and unpowerful

Conceit: paying husband back for love

Brave and impossible diction

Couplet rhyme scheme to represent husband and wife

Couplet rhyme scheme

Poem by Anne Bradstreet

Poem by Anne Bradstreet

Poem by Anne Bradstreet

Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon

Mather's major work

Pilgrims- separate from Church of England

Gave Pilgrims the name 'pilgrims'

"Of Plymouth Plantation" and part of Writing Mayflower Compact

Mayor of Plymouth (reelected 30 times)

By John Smith

Brother-in-law published poetry because she was very shy and modest

Used conceits

First published American poet

Conceit of house as a metaphor for life

Couplet rhyme scheme

Anaphora: "no"

Conceits!

By Edward Taylor

By Edward Taylor

Clergymen!

Examined inner self commune with God

Conceits in the style of metaphysical poetry

Asked for God's help to glorify God and himself

Comparing one's clothes to their grace from God

Conceits and positivity

Religious grace as a gift from God

Sermons sent crowds into hysterical fits of weeping

Viewed God as wrathful and distant and people as evil

Believed he communicated directly with God

Part of Great Awakening

Deliveries had people gripping their benches to save themselves from falling into Hell

Idea that people were destined for Hell

17th/18th century minister

Over 500 books and phamplets - manged to work Scripture into all of his works

Socially and politically influential

Biased against the accusers, labeled them as childish liars

Negative viewpoint, use of persuasive techniques

Documented Salem Witch Trials

Minister with negative viewpoint

Minister

Negative, lecturing peers on sins and wrongdoings

Historical documentation

Circle of life

Give and take of nature

Necessity of man to hurt nature

Could be interpreted as invasion on white man on Natives

Metaphor

Interaction of man with nature

Represented through pictures

Oldest Native American piece

Creation myth

New day dawning

Fresh starts

Rhyme scheme

Left hand vs right hand, good vs evil

Emphasis of balance on power

Creation myth

Sequential

Life cycles

Form of documentation