theocracy, the New eden, the New Jerusalem
Puritanism is a _________ ran by religious fanatics that created a new government known as The ___ ______ or The ___ _______.
God / Christ , elected, chosen
The Puritan hierarchy put ___/______ at the top, "_______" or "______" leaders next, and normal people at the bottom.
interprets, God's will
The Puritans relied on the leaders to _________ ___'_ ____ for the people.
bishops; God; Bible
The Puritans rejected the hierarchy of _______ because they weren't chosen by ___ and the teachings of the _____ did not say that they were the chosen ones.
bishops, bishops, aristocracy
Puritans believe that God did not appoint the ____ to rule over them and therefore didn't listen to the _______ because the ____ chose them, not God.
reform, england
Puritans wanted to ______ the Church of _______.
clergy, bishops
Puritans wanted to lessen the role of the ______ because they had not been appointed by God, but the ____.
pure, accountable
Puritans believed that leaders should come from ____ groups elected by the townspeople so that they can be held ___________.
bible, literal, God, guide, problems
Puritans believed that the _____was the ____ word of ___, and that it was given to man to be a _____ for all ________.
Calvinism
Puritans subscribed to _________.
theocracy
_________ is the rule of a state/country by God through religious leaders with divine authority from God.
heresy/treason, death
The Puritans did not follow what religious leaders said, therefore practicing ______. This act was punishable by _____.
dual image, hating, loving
The Puritans had a ________ image of God in which one was _________ and the other ____________
Elizabeth I, Anglo-Catholic Church,
In the mid-1600s, the Puritans gave _________ _ problems and were seen as radicals of the _____ ________ Church.
Rituals, controls
Radicals of the Anglo-Saxon Church wanted to purify _______ and political ________ of the Church over its people.
bishops
Puritans believed that they didn't need the ______ to translate the Word of God.
Puritans followed the teachings of ____ ______, not ______ ______.
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disrespectful
The Puritans took _____________ actions to show their distaste for the Anglo-Catholic Church.
America
Puritans were very passionate about their religion and gave up everything to form their own religion. They traveled to their New Eden/New Jerusalem in _______ to start anew.
roots
The Puritans founded this nation and created the American Idea. Therefore, America has its _____ with Puritans. America's identity was started with religious fanatics.
symbolic
They used __________ actions to go against the church.
water, wine
They wanted to drink __________ instead of __________.
refused to kneel
They _______________ during church.
Manifest Destiny", 1800s, ethic
______________ began in the __________ when Puritans believed it was their responsibility to spread the Puritan ____________.
List the Tenets or Laws of Calvin
total depravity of man, limited atonement, divine grace of God, predestination, perseverance
1st tenet
Total Depravity of Man
Adam, Eve, orginal, covenant
Everyone was totally sinful/corrupt/evil because of ____ and ___'s ________ sin. They broke the first ________ between man and God due to temptation.
hates, burn
They looked at God as someone who _____ people and wishes them to ____ in Hell.
2nd Tenet
Limited Atonement/Forgiveness of God
forgiveness
Puritans believed that God had limited ___________ and, therefore, tried to live good religious lives.
Signs/symbols, ???
Because God saved only people that he chose, Puritans were constantly looking for _______/_____from God and lived with _______.
God, grace
Only ___'s _____ can overcome man's depraved nature from original sin and give redemption from Hell.
4, 5,elected/chosen
Puritans believed that only ___ out of ____ Puritans were elected by God to live with him in heaven; those chosen were known as the "_______" leaders/few.
List the three signs that Puritans believed would help them get into heaven.
material success, political/social success, sinless life
3rd tenet
Divine Grace of God
feeling
God's divine Grace was an overwhelming _______ each elected/chosen Puritan had.
themselves
Puritans looked within __________ for their being chosen.
4th tenet
Predestination
2nd, code
God had predestined elected people to live with him in heaven and lead the ______ covenant and live the ____ of the Bible.
List the three goals that the Puritans had for the second covenant with God.
Wage war against the devil, drive the devil, spread God's word
5th tenet
Perseverance of Man
word of God, Bible, converting
This tenet is characterized by the goal of never giving up on spreading the ____ __ ___ and leading the Second Covenant and following the word of the _____ and __________ nonbelievers or driving them out of the New Eden/Jerusalem.
Playing, Entertainment
_______ and _____________ were thought to be sinful and a waste of time because they were going against what God wanted you to do (spread the second covenant) and the reason for your existence.
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America is a very young country, and the presence of Puritanism is left today: Bad words were considered sinful to Puritans. Indians live in reservations and have been pushed out of the nice areas into desolate places.
indians
If Puritans could not convert the _______, they drove them out.
able
The Puritan God was ____.
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Puritans believed that God _______ them.
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Puritans looked to the _____ to solve all of their problems.
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Puritan education system was very specific on what it decided to emphasize. The three subjects it emphasized were: _______, _______, and __________
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Puritans did not stress the ____ because they believed it was a waste of time.
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In 1636, Puritans established _______ .
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Puritans invested heavily in ____ _______ _____
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Common stereotypes of Puritans were that they were very _________ and that they were _____-______
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V Puritan Literature
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What are the aspects of typical Puritan literature?
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_ _ _ _ _ Style of Writing
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common, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ language
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_ _ _ _ _ _ in tone (Understatement=litotes)
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Images of the _ _ _ _
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No highly _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ language (Secret)
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Void of highly _ _ _ _ _ _ _ language
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Allusions to _ _ _ and the _ _ _ _ _ (Or Satan)
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Preaches a _ _ _ _ _ or _ _ _ _ _ _
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Search for _ _ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from God
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Typical Puritan Poetry
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Teaches a _ _ _ _ _ or _ _ _ _ _ _
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References to _ _ _ in the _ _ _ _ _, the relationship between _ _ _ and _ _ _, the power of _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ allusions, or power of the _ _ _ _ _.
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Should be in the ________ style of writing (simple language, ______ of imagery, ______ attention to poetic techniques
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Always has ____ and _____
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Typical Puritan Stereotypes:
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Very _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _/ _ _ _ _ _ loving
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Very _ _ _ _ _/ Goes to _ _ _ _ _ often
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Strict, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lifestyle
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No _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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No _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Very _ _ _ _ _ clothing
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William Bradford (1590-1657)
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Preliminary writing
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Bradford was one of the greatest of colonial America
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Landed in 1620 at Plymouth
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His writings were Hidden in England for 206 years until revealed in 1897
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Signed Mayflower Compact
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Explored the unknown shore
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2nd governor of Plymouth
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Led "Old Comers," a fishing monopoly
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Of Plymouth Plantation (epitome of typical puritan literature)
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Tells of Puritan life in early 1600's
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Thought he was Moses because he led the people across the Atlantic Ocean to the "New Jerusalem" and thought the Puritans that traveled with him were the Israelites
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Face storms (breaking waves, shallow waters), disease and problems with the ship. Compares journey across the sea to the journey of Paul and his crew (spread to new land for faith reasons, part of the second covenant). Thank God for allowing survival of t
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Believes Puritans to have the same impact as the Apostles
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Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
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Preliminary writing
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Member of General council
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Early American Aristocrat
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Managed colonies printing press
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Diary of Samuel Sewall
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Rich upper class judge during salem witch trials
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Later apologized about witch trials
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hardly follows religion
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misbehaved people with brawls, fights
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Kept diaries to analyze signs/symbols
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loved good books/conversation
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**Perfect example of rich-elect
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supposed richest man in Boston at the time
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Powerful judge
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chief judge in Salem Witch Trials
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Trials were his undoing
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Breaks stereotypes of typical Puritan in scenes depicted but still typical Puritan literature
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Edward Taylor 1645?-1729 [Sketchley, Leicestershire, England- Boston] PUBLISHED IN 1939
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Edward Taylor describes his poems as "sacramental acts of private devotion and worship." He was the town doctor and a minister of Westfield, Massachusetts (from 1671 until his death) mending both the body and soul of other people. Arrived in Boston in Jul
The Preface" NOT TYPICAL PURITAN POETRY (over attention to arts. We are depraved due to original sin. Many allusions to God/Bible) [it's a retelling of Adam and Eve but never mentions them. Does allude to God] no search for signs or symbols)
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The first 19 lines ask the same question (who made Earth) in different ways by mentioning normal professions that involve creating things with hands. Shows that God is in the ordinary people, that Taylor can relate to his God and is comfortable with him,
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lines 20-34 talk of how God can take away everything as easily as he made it
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diction with nothing; nothing = emptiness and total depravity of man
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Uses metaphor for man's soul comparing it to a gem/diamond. It is the most valuable gift from God, but because of Sin the diamond was darkened to coal (still made of carbon but with lesser value and not as beautiful.
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Huswifery= literally means housekeeping, wife's role in being a man's servant just like taylor wanted to be God's servant (Not Typical Puritan Poetry: Overly artistic, Still moral, and allusions to God/Bible. The whole poem is an extended metaphor using s
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Each part of the spinning wheel is trait Taylor wishes to have so that he can glorify God (he's a preacher)
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Upon a Spider Catching a Fly (Not Typical Puritan Literature: Overly Poetical [structurally symmetrical in beat and meter, follows a changing meter pattern, musical elements with the internal rhyme] , Teaches a moral [be strong like the wasp to break the
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Taylor sees a fly and wasp in nature and it makes him think that their being caught by a spider is true for humans as well
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Uses personification to make the wasp and the fly more relatable and to show that they represent different types of people. the spider represents satan.
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The wasp isn't killed because the spider is afraid of its stinger and its strength
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If you are strong like the wasp you can escape satan's web traps and go to heaven (chosen/elected persons)
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A cage is a metaphor for heaven. The cage looks like the web. Nightingale is a metaphor for the soul.
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Anne Bradstreet (1612(?)-1672)
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Emulated Guillaume du Bartas
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Married Simon Bradstreet when she was sixteen
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Was educated in London
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Shared her father's (Thomas Dudley) Puritan beliefs
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Reason for coming over to America was because her husband was appointed to assist in the preparations of the Massachusetts Bay Company
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She was troubled about the truth of the Scriptures, that she never saw any convincing miracles, and that she always wondered if those of which she read "were feigned.
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She was the first in a long line of American poets who took their consolation not from theology but from the "wondrous works," as she wrote, "that I see, the vast frame of the heaven and the earth, the order of all things, night and day, summer and winter
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Her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, paster of the Andover church, brought with him to London a manuscript collection of her poetry and had printed it there in 1650. This manuscript was called The Tenth Muse, and it was the first published volume of poems
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THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK
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Personification is a type of _________
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A Petrarchan sonnet (or _______________) is ____ lines in ____________ ___________ where the __________ expresses the __________ and the __________ provides the _____________ or _____________ on the problem and the rhyme scheme is ______________________.
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The other sonnet is the _____________or__________________ where the _______________ is in the last two lines or the ______________ and the rhyme scheme is __________________.
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In the Prologue Anne Bradstreet is very ___________ about her poetry
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She makes an allusion to the great writer __________________whom she _______________in the poem.
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She feels inferior to this poet. ______________
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She makes an allusion to the __ (#) _______ who were women
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The third stanza sets up a Analogy
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A schoolboy has no ________________.
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_____________ strings cannot make ___________ music
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The second answer refers to the __________lines of Great Bartas
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_____________ is not beautiful
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The sweet tongued greek is ______________.
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Line twenty shows that the sweet tongued greek was flawed as a __________ too.
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Sweet tongued greek refers to what previous words?
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In the first four stanzas she is _____________man.
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The tone changes in stanza ________.
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lots of ___________ is used -> on mine could refer to her poetry or she is being sarcastic
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In a sonnet you can split the first 12 lines into _______________.
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KNOW YOUR FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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Bradstreet's ___________ poetry was not that great
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Bradstreet was highly educated in ____________.
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She knew that because she ___________ she was very ___________.
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Women were put into a ______________ position.
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Her __________ poetry was much better than her ____________ poetry.
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She had a ___________ relationship and __________ with god through her ________
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Bradstreet lived in a time and place where poetry was not ______________ especially when it was by a________________.
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News From America
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Written by John Underhill
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Written for Anglican audience in England, only reason to invoke God's name
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Used 2nd covenant to justify Mystic massacre where he burns women, children, and old men alive (does for profit, specifically fur trade)
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Day of Doom
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Written during a time of low church attendance
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Michael Wigglesworth wrote on how if feels to be in hell
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Re-telling of Revelation
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typical puritan poetry
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Alternating iambic tetrameter, iambic trimeter
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loose rhyme scheme
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Typical puritan poetry (has all 4 aspects)
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The Bay Psalm Book
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First book printed in New England (America)
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Changed Psalms into bad songs
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Typical Puritan Poetry
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New England Primer
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Represents the meaning of Puritan School
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Read the Bible
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Shows a Moral or Lesson
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Letters: Meaning
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Primer does not have letters "I" or "V". This is because "I" looks like "J" and "V" looks like "U
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Genesis and Adam and Eve=you are depraved
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read the bible to fix your life
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only animals play--not people
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stealing is a sin, moral lesson
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Just cause you can't see God doesn't mean he isn't there
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don't be lazy, perseverance in tenets of Calvinism
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you better be ready for death; live a good life
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Bible shall never leave you
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Not in Puritan alphabet
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Praise God in times of desperation
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king is God/ Spirit
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Revelation reference
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Even in darkest moment God is with you
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state of man's soul/rising of spirit
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king who hid behind tree
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Peter
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Queen Esther
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Mother of Joseph; Biblical allusion
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Samuel anoints Saul/ David
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you are going to die
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Biblical allusion to Bathsheba, betrayal? sin
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NOT IN PURITAN ALPHABET
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Jonah/Whale
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You are going to die/king of persia
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you will die
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Zacchaeus and the sycamore tree, even the most sinful can be loved by God
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