Writing Styles in the Puritan Time Period

Puritan literary era is an era with little time for literature and writing, as well as poetry. In most cases, writing has a practical purpose. At the time, a few poets wrote many religious beliefs with a simple and simple style and structure. Every symbol is religious. The chosen poem meets the typical style of this age. They all have simple structures and themes of religion and family life. These poems represent typical poetry of the Puritan era. Ann Brad Street was one of the main poets of those days and became one of the first poets in the United States. She was well educated and was not particularly common at that time. Women gave her the ability to write authority on various topics. In almost all the poems such as "worthy of illness", the poet turns to God.

By the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), American writers transcended the Puritan literary style and religious themes and developed the experience unique to the United States. (Puritan was a Protestant group that broke up with the English church, they believed that the rituals of the church were simplified and people believed that they should follow strict religious discipline.) Science, nature, freedom in the revolution, The charm of the colony to innovation. Colonialists also no longer copied more formal style British writers, developed their own way of speaking. (Noah Webster 's Blue - Backed Speller, published in 1783, helped standardize the new American English version.)