Author ID RT1 Flashcards
Bradstreet
poetry
house on fire
calling out to God
rhyming back to back lines
God is an architect and in control
book is her deformed baby
talking about failure in writing
Wheatly
poetry
taken from Africa to America as slave
VIRTUE
personifies big ideas/virtues
not in control, God is
allusion to cain curse in bible “black as cain”
Taylor
poetry
metaphors of their every day things (spide, wasp, fly, spinning wheel)`
Mather
gold, street, marketplace, cities, repetitive
transparent globe
debt and theivery
Edwards
man has need for happiness and Jesus fulfills this, apetite/food/thirst, water, river, tree
Jefferson
declaration of independence
king
declaring independence bc king is bad
list of why king bad / grievances
John Adams
knowledge and oppression
cannon (church)
feudal law
people afraid to learn
Brittan is the mother (bad one)
liberty
Franklin
all about me “I”
authobiography
list of things to be morally perfect
checklist Christian doesn’t like church
man attacking weeds like attacking virtues
man buying an axe
everyone interest to be virtuous
Nathanie Hawtjorne
truth
Sun
Being honest
Puritan
Be honest to self
Thoreau
civil disobedience
Mexican War and slavery
Wooden gun
MACHINE is bad govt
Manliness - individual self emphasis