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Title: Puritan Poetry


1
Puritan Poetry
  • Anne Bradstreet

2
Essential Questions
  • What is inversion?
  • How does Bradstreet use inversion to achieve
    meter and rhyme?

3
Anne Bradstreet
  • First American writer, an English woman
  • While we have writings before Bradstreet, she is
    the first producer of what we call literature.
  • In 1630, Anne journeyed across the Atlantic
    aboard the Arbella to the part of New England
    around Salem that would become known as the
    Massachusetts Bay Colony.

4
Style
  • Unlike the ornate high style popular in England
    at the time, the Puritan plain style used simple
    sentences and common words from everyday speech.
  • The plain style contained few or no classical
    allusions, Latin quotations, or elaborate figures
    of speech.

5
Plain Style
  • The plain style, Puritans felt, was much more
    effective in revealing Gods truth than the
    ornate style.
  • Despite the fact that the style used by Puritan
    writers now seems hard to read, it was once
    considered simple and direct in the 1600s.

6
Bradstreets Use of Plain Style
  • Although Anne Bradstreets Upon the Burning of
    Our House contains some figurative language, it
    is a good example of the plain style.

7
Plain Style vs. Ornate Style
Ornate Style Plain Style
Shabby but beloved, my shoes house my feet as they carry me from place to place. My shoes are old, brown, kind of worn-out, but comfortable for walking around in.
The pen spills ink-blood as it brings words to life. The pen is a blue ballpoint with a leaky tip.
8
Inversion
  • Bradstreet also used inversion.
  • Inversion is the reversal of the normal word
    order in a sentence or phrase.
  • Write this in it is not in your notes.

9
Inversion
  • For example, Bradstreet writes I wakened was
    with thundring noise instead of I was wakened
    with thundring noise.
  • Inversion is often used to make a poems rhyme
    scheme work out or to maintain a fixed meter.

10
Rhyme
  • Rhyme is the repetition of vowel sounds in
    accented syllables and succeeding syllables.
    Types of rhyme include
  • end rhyme
  • internal rhyme
  • approximate, or slant, rhyme

11
Rhyme Scheme
  • End rhyme refers to rhyming words at the end of
    lines.
  • End rhymes usually follow a regular pattern
    within a poem, called its rhyme scheme.

Love is not all it is not meat nor drink
A Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain B
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
A And rise and sink and rise and sink again . .B
12
Rhythm and Meter
  • Rhythm is the alternation of stressed and
    unstressed syllables in language. Rhythm occurs
    naturally in all forms of spoken and written
    language.
  • Meter is the regular pattern of stressed and
    unstressed syllables in poetry.
  • One meter commonly used in poetry is iambic
    meteran unstressed syllable followed by a
    stressed syllable.
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