Poetry. Anisha Patel

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1 Poetry Anisha Patel

2 Early Colonial Poetry Analysis Puritan Colonies

3 Anne Bradstreet Another A woman has lost her husband and is now feeling a little lost. She is looking everywhere, but can not find where her love has gone. His death has effected her in a way where she wants no other. She just wants him to return. It's a very compassionate poem, although the tone doesn't seem to directly give that away right away.

4 Anne Bradstreet To My Dear And Loving Husband The speaker seems to be a woman. She has a strong love for her husband, as Bradstreet seems to convey in her poems. She finds her husband to be something she doesn't deserve and holds him up on a pedastool. Love is a prize to her, so this seems like it represents culture of Puritan times.

5 Anne Bradstreet from Contemplations This poem was interesting because the speaker is contemplating life and fate as it is. The sailor in the poem lived a good happy life. Even with this, he died a rough death at sea. The irony is, he was just doing what he loved when he died. It challenges the idea of happiness.

6 Anne Bradstreet Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children This poem was happy, yet sad. A mother knows death is coming but leaves last words for her unborn child. She wants him to live a good life, yet know her. This seems to be a trait that lives on even now. Many people want to be remembered, or keep their family history alive.

7 Edward Taylor Huswifery The poem's title, meaning house wife, is about a house wife wanting to devote her life and work to God. She compares her life to a spool of yarn. It shows the relevance of God in the life of a puritans in a interesting way. Not many people seem to think this way now, giving more meaning to the poem. It has detail and an on going metaphor that outlines all that the average Puritan woman should do in life.

8 Edward Taylor Upon A Spider Catching A Fly This poem was complex due to the ongoing allegory. The spider represented Satan, as the web was hell. The idea of getting caught without trying is a strong idea in that it happens to just anyone. God acting as a nightingale shows how pious the Puritans really were. This whole complexity really gives Puritan life a new meaning.

9 This poem really stumped me. There was a lot of allegory going on which threw me off a little bit. I found the poem very well written though, and interesting. The way the wife is described for her beauty is very different than current society, in the way the speaker's compassion is portrayed. There was also that presence of thanking God once again.

10 This poem was one of my favorite ones only because it made me really stop and think. It was written in a way that made me need to look into it more, and if I didn't, I wouldn't have learned so much. There was a reference to the bible that I didn't fully know about about the Garden of Eden, but now know about. This is what made really like the poem. None of the other ones relly challenged me the same way.

11 Poetry Through Music Comparing Upon a Spider Catching a Fly by Edward Taylor and Demons by Imagine Dragons

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14 The Poet Original Poetry about society

15 In a Day

16 With Each New Match

17 Judgement