Puritan Poetry Taylor Bradstreet Group 1 Responses Abstracts

Puritan Poetry: Taylor & Bradstreet • Group 1 Responses • Abstracts: – Kristy – Melissa • Where do you see images of depravity? • Where do you see self-assertion? • How do you see gender-associated images used?

Next Time: • Review for exam • Read: Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of Captivity & Restoration • Responses: Group 2 • Abstract: ? ? • Strategies: ? ?

Strategies: • Look for gaps, tensions, surprises • Consider form, content, function • Themes for analysis: – Self-Fashioning – Gender-associated images – Puritan depravity & self-assertion

Puritan Poetry: Taylor & Bradstreet • Group 1 Responses • Abstracts: – Kristy – Melissa • Where do you see images of depravity? • Where do you see self-assertion? • How do you see gender-associated images used?

Bradstreet’s poety & iconography • How is her art justified? • How creative is she? • Her story? How does it help us appreciate her art? – Purpose – Form – Key themes

Bradstreet & Poetry • Self-trained (see progression) • Strong, assertive female • Material Girl in Material World

Taylor’s Art & Puritan Poetics • How does he differ from Bradstreet? – Both write privately, not for publication – Both self-taught, with development of genres – Both address personal struggles & crises • His story? What are his struggles? – Family – Faith

His writing? – Depravity – Gender reversal – Playfulness • Sounds • Puns “ 26. Meditation” “Huswifery”

Epics & Elegies • Upon Wedlock

Strategies: • Look for gaps, tensions, surprises • Consider form, content, function • Themes for analysis: – Self-Fashioning – Gender-associated images – Puritan depravity & self-assertion