1. From Contemplation:
Patriotic/traditional example – “How Adam sighed to see his progeny, clothed all in his black sinful livery, who neither guilt nor yet the punishment could fly.”
Emotion/non-traditional view example – “By birth more noble than those creatures all…”
In this example, we know that traditional views are that man is born a sinful creature, and that is what she appears to say in the excerpt about Adam’s progeny, yet further in she makes the statement about how humans are by birth more noble than the animals on earth.
From Before the Birth of One of Her Children:
Patriotic/traditional example – “What nature would, God grant to yours and you…”
Emotion/non-traditional example – “All things within this fading world hath end…” In this example, we can look to the first line that represents the traditional view that God is the Creator, and if you believe in God, you believe in everlasting life, which means that physical death is not an end but a beginning. Yet in the other example of her emotional views, she says that all things in this world end, indicating I feel that she could not help but sense a finality to the physical death of herself. From In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old: Patriotic/traditional example – “Blest babe, why should I once bewail they fate, or sigh thy days so soon were terminate…” Emotion/non-traditional example – “By nature trees do rot when they are grown…” Here she seems to say, “I’m mourning the loss of my grandchild, taken too soon,” and then implying that it’s best to die young, unmarred by the changes life can make upon our soul, “By nature trees do rot…”; It’s almost as if she is saying it’s better this way because then she didn’t have to become a sinful person. 2. Johnathon Edwards writes reasonable entreaties when he states on page 179, “And I am ready to think, many are deceived with such affections, and such a kind of delight, as I then had in religion, and mistake it for grace.” I feel he is trying to point to the folly of feeling superior to others because you’ve allowed yourself to become drunk with the divine. One immersed in all that is holy and good sees all that is wrong and sinful in others and so becomes unable to keep themselves from being judgmental. This line is where he seems to realize he allowed himself to be similarly deceived. But again, on the same page, he writes too of falling for the opposite ideal, with particular imagery that does well to get his point across. …show more content…
“…and returned like a dog to his vomit, and went on in the ways of sin.” He is very clearly saying that while we cannot allow ours to become so pious we alienate everyone, neither can we set aside our spirituality and let sin overtake us.
Examples of metaphors:
On page 182 he states, “…ejaculatory prayer…” which implies an immense release of prayer for his soul. Also in page 182 he says, “…to grow in grace…” which I believe refers to how our spiritual self grows stronger and wiser when we not only see the grace God has given us, but show that grace to others. On page 179, he states, “I had a variety of concerns and exercises about my soul from childhood,” and I feel this is a metaphor implying he had mental meditations from his time pursuing the divine as a child but also had concerns from that same period.
3. I was surprised at the logic and rhetoric shown by the transcript. In a way it was almost depressing because we’ve lost that in our current age. It reads as if each spoken word is measured and thought out with care, versus today when we are so quick to speak so much that means so little. 4. I think what stood out the most was the contradiction in how brutal the Indians were in the attack, and yet how after the capture of Mary they allowed her to care for her child and let her child pass from the wound instead of just killing the girl and tossing her aside in the march back to their camp. They let her
Patriotic/traditional example – “How Adam sighed to see his progeny, clothed all in his black sinful livery, who neither guilt nor yet the punishment could fly.”
Emotion/non-traditional view example – “By birth more noble than those creatures all…”
In this example, we know that traditional views are that man is born a sinful creature, and that is what she appears to say in the excerpt about Adam’s progeny, yet further in she makes the statement about how humans are by birth more noble than the animals on earth.
From Before the Birth of One of Her Children:
Patriotic/traditional example – “What nature would, God grant to yours and you…”
Emotion/non-traditional example – “All things within this fading world hath end…” In this example, we can look to the first line that represents the traditional view that God is the Creator, and if you believe in God, you believe in everlasting life, which means that physical death is not an end but a beginning. Yet in the other example of her emotional views, she says that all things in this world end, indicating I feel that she could not help but sense a finality to the physical death of herself. From In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old: Patriotic/traditional example – “Blest babe, why should I once bewail they fate, or sigh thy days so soon were terminate…” Emotion/non-traditional example – “By nature trees do rot when they are grown…” Here she seems to say, “I’m mourning the loss of my grandchild, taken too soon,” and then implying that it’s best to die young, unmarred by the changes life can make upon our soul, “By nature trees do rot…”; It’s almost as if she is saying it’s better this way because then she didn’t have to become a sinful person. 2. Johnathon Edwards writes reasonable entreaties when he states on page 179, “And I am ready to think, many are deceived with such affections, and such a kind of delight, as I then had in religion, and mistake it for grace.” I feel he is trying to point to the folly of feeling superior to others because you’ve allowed yourself to become drunk with the divine. One immersed in all that is holy and good sees all that is wrong and sinful in others and so becomes unable to keep themselves from being judgmental. This line is where he seems to realize he allowed himself to be similarly deceived. But again, on the same page, he writes too of falling for the opposite ideal, with particular imagery that does well to get his point across. …show more content…
“…and returned like a dog to his vomit, and went on in the ways of sin.” He is very clearly saying that while we cannot allow ours to become so pious we alienate everyone, neither can we set aside our spirituality and let sin overtake us.
Examples of metaphors:
On page 182 he states, “…ejaculatory prayer…” which implies an immense release of prayer for his soul. Also in page 182 he says, “…to grow in grace…” which I believe refers to how our spiritual self grows stronger and wiser when we not only see the grace God has given us, but show that grace to others. On page 179, he states, “I had a variety of concerns and exercises about my soul from childhood,” and I feel this is a metaphor implying he had mental meditations from his time pursuing the divine as a child but also had concerns from that same period.
3. I was surprised at the logic and rhetoric shown by the transcript. In a way it was almost depressing because we’ve lost that in our current age. It reads as if each spoken word is measured and thought out with care, versus today when we are so quick to speak so much that means so little. 4. I think what stood out the most was the contradiction in how brutal the Indians were in the attack, and yet how after the capture of Mary they allowed her to care for her child and let her child pass from the wound instead of just killing the girl and tossing her aside in the march back to their camp. They let her