1660s,

Plymouth Plantation

Takes a keen interest in the interactions between Native Americans and his peoples

He is outlawed but remains compassionate, liberty-oriented, and tolerant

1640s

Feminist poet who invokes feminist senitments in her poems

Contemplations is a poem that spoke about her current strife on earth, and how she sees this as only a temporary period with her great prize awaiting her after life

Before the Birth of one of her children is a poem contemplating the possibility of her death during child birth in this poem she asks her husband to take care of children

1670s

Wrote A model of christian Society

This piece spoke about the need for love, selflessness to hold together the community

Makes a metaphor about the human body, its ligaments and tendons are like love and community that holds society together

1730s

Wrote Sinners in the hands of an angry god

This piece was a sermon about the insufferable punishment if individuals don't bend to gods will

Was a type of fire and brimstone preaching that invoked emotions into the audience

Was able to combine principles of the enlightnement and traditional puritan teachings

1670s

Free flowing style

Wrote Upon Wedlock and the Death of the Children

This piece focused on the death of one of his children his diction and use of literary tools made the cold subject more lighthearted

Huswifery

A poem about the metaphor of a spinning wheel and his faith

He asks god to use his tools to complete him and bend him to his will so in the end he will be a finished piece like a piece of cloth

1780S

Enlightenment thinker

Wrote Remarks Conerning the Savages and his autobiography

A slave who wrote the Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano

Proud of his heritage, very honest and straightforward

Spoke on ideas such as rational trade and providential being

Has many ancedotes one of them included a brutal being he endured at the hands of a Savannah Slave Owner

1753

Poet who wrote on Being Brought to America

Pleased to have been taken from her pagan land so that she could discover god and his works

In America she has a deep devotion for god

Not tahnkful for current position but thankful for god

Was brilliant and her masters taught her to read and write and about god

Wrote Rip Van Winkle in 1819

A short story about a man named Rip Van Winkle who was belvoed by his town but was very idle and lazy

He ventured into the mountains one day and had an encounter with a strange group of people with whom he got drunk with

When he awoke it was years later evident by his long bear and rusty musket

When he returns he finds out his wife has died and that America has fought a revolution

Wrote Last of the Mohicans in 1757

The snippet we read concerned the interactions of 3 characters: Natty Bumpo, Chingachgook and Uncas

Chingachgook is the leader of a dying tribe and his son Uncas is his heir

Natty Bumpo is of pure English Descent, but although he has European Knowledge he has native wisdom and is able to navigate and survive in the wirlderness due to his interactions with the native Americans

At the end Uncas died and the line of the Mohicans died with him

One of the most notorious American writers

Had a mystique about him due to his egnimatic nature and personal struggles with addiction and his psyche

Wrote the Annabel Lee a poem about a memory of an intense love the narrator and his Annabel Lee shared

Their love was so fierce that the angels envied them

Eventually she died and was locked in a tomb

Also wrote the tell-tale heart