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Early American Writers
In the literature of early American writers there is one common trait
among all the writings: religion. Among Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards
all speak of their opinion of religion, god, heaven, and material things.
Anne Bradstreet was a puritan wife, originally from England but then
moved to America. Upon moving and settling into her home, her poems became full
of emotion and spoke about ....
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.... Angry God,
he states "now they see that those things on which they depended for peace and
safety were nothing but thin air and empty shadows." This statement agrees with
what Bradstreet believed in, that nothing (possessions) is important on Earth.
If a person has depended on those things for all your life and then they are
suddenly taken away from you, you will not know what to do.
However, unlike Bradstreet, he portrays god as angry for all the sins of
man ....
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