1. Puritan Poetry: Taylor & Bradstreet Group 1 Responses Abstracts: –Kristy –Melissa Where do you see images of depravity ? Where do you see self-assertion ? How do you see gender-associated images used?

2. Next Time: Review for exam Read: Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of Captivity & Restoration Responses: Group 2 Abstract: ?? Strategies: ??

3. Strategies: Look for gaps, tensions, surprises Consider form, content, function Themes for analysis: –Self-Fashioning –Gender-associated images –Puritan depravity & self-assertion

4. Puritan Poetry: Taylor & Bradstreet Group 1 Responses Abstracts: –Kristy –Melissa Where do you see images of depravity ? Where do you see self-assertion ? How do you see gender-associated images used?

5. Bradstreet’s poety & iconography How is her art justified? How creative is she? Her story? How does it help us appreciate her art? –Purpose –Form –Key themes

6. Bradstreet & Poetry Self-trained (see progression) Strong, assertive female Material Girl in Material World

7. Taylor’s Art & Puritan Poetics How does he differ from Bradstreet? –Both write privately, not for publication –Both self-taught, with development of genres –Both address personal struggles & crises His story? What are his struggles? –Family –Faith

8. His writing? –Depravity“26. Meditation” –Gender reversal “Huswifery” –Playfulness Sounds Puns

9. Epics & Elegies Upon Wedlock

10. Strategies: Look for gaps, tensions, surprises Consider form, content, function Themes for analysis: –Self-Fashioning –Gender-associated images –Puritan depravity & self-assertion