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Compare And Contrast To My Dear And Loving Husband And Upon The Burning Of Our House

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Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are both extremely strong in their Puritan faith, but present it in extremely different ways throughout their writing. Bradstreet presents her faith through more pureness, while Edwards presents his faith through more aggression and intensity. Bradstreet, a poet most widely known for her poems To My Dear and Loving Husband and Upon the Burning of Our House. Edwards, an intense preacher that is widely known for Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The two authors differ greatly in their writing styles and tone throughout their poems. Bradstreet and Edwards both provide extremely different tones and imagery to present their faith. Edwards provides this faith through a way more aggressive way, almost trying …show more content…

In this section of the poem, Edwards presents this image of hell to sinners and nonbelievers. However, Bradstreet is more of a believer of how God rewards the people that deserve heaven and encourages this by presenting the image of heaven to the reader. In Upon the Burning of Our House, she illustrates how perfect and beautiful heaven is “Framed by that mighty architect / with glory and richly furnished” (44-45). This shows God rewards people with heaven and encourages people to do right so they can end up in heaven. Bradstreet, compared to Edwards, promotes her faith and trust in God in kind, pure and encouraging ways “Yet by His gift is made thine own; / there’s wealth enough, I need no more / Farewell my pelf, farewell my store / the world no longer let me love / my hope and treasure lies above” (Upon the Burning 50-54). She refers to God being the only thing that matters, materialistic things do not mean anything when you have God. In contrast, Edwards preaches and encourages God in an intense and aggravated style of encouragement “We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth;..” “Thus easy it is for God when he pleases to cast his enemies down to hell…”(124). This is referring to

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