Tennets of Puritanism:

Soveriegnty of God

Functions

1. increseases ambuguity and multiplicity of meaning
2. conveys a sense of witheld power
3. suggests profundity (or depth, profoundness)

1. Recoverable deletions-auxiliary verbs, repeated subjects, implied pronouns
2. Nonrecoverable deletions-omitting phrases that logically link other consecutive statements
3. Parataxis- information presented sequentially without hierarchal restriction 

Patterned contrast with polysyllables:

Functions

1. ending poems with a polysyllabic words makes it more meditative, holding note

2. different from the clean masculine rhyme common in the 19th century

Patterned Contrast with polysyllables:

Methods

1. Abstract words
2. Ideas constrasted with space and time

Dysjuntion:

Functions

1. undercuts readers expectations of ordered meaning
2. allows creative experimentation with language
3. allows expression of the inexpressible

Dysjunction:

methods

1. Disruptive punctuation: teaches reader to trust play of her mind
2. Dysruptive syntax: inverted and elliptical
3. Disruptive grammar and technique: metrical irregularity, off rhyme, and general ungrammaticality
4. variants: forces reader to take part in establishing the text of the poem
5. Dashes: isolate words to isolate meaning, creates suspense in the text, arrest movement

Speech:

Functions

1. speech-like syntax is more immediate than formal poetic-like syntax
2. First draws readers in with common language and then disrupts it with more complex uses of language

Speech:

methods

1. Short Sentences: contractions and rural analogies
2. All purpose words: such as "thing"
3. Colloquialisms: to prevent hierarchical distance between her and the reader
4. feminine diction: domestic metaphors, use of exclamation points and questions, use of metaphors to aviod assertiveness, intimacy of voice, indirection, unfinished sentences

• clear, direct, and available
• openly expresses anger, insolence, rebellion, grief, or terror
• uses the word "no" frequently

• generous, uncomplaining, and undemanding
• creates order from chaos
• Food and drink in this voice represent the mercy of Christ

• gothic transcendent voice that attempts to hold identity together as the forces of extinction try to dissolve it.
• Gothic, Domestic and Prophetic
• create variations on the process of dying

Tennets of puritanism:

predestination