LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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purchasing yarn and spools
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dressing for one’s funeral
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doing the daily housework
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spinning and weaving
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Detailed explanation-1: -Right away, the poem launches into its extended metaphor (which can also be thought of as the poem’s conceit). A spinning wheel is a tool used to transform raw fibers into thread. Essentially, then, in asking to be God’s spinning wheel, the speaker is saying that he wants to be a tool for God.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main theme found in “Huswifery” is desperation. Taylor apparently has decided that he is going to stop living life for his own desire, but instead give it to God to be worked through. His purpose in writing the poem was to be a letter to God, a written form of prayer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Taylor makes use of several literary devices in ‘Huswifery’. These include but are not limited to caesura, metaphor, and apostrophe. The latter, apostrophe, is an arrangement of words addressing someone, something, or creature, that does not exist, or is not present, in the poem’s immediate setting.
Detailed explanation-4: -huswifery (uncountable) (obsolete) The business of a housewife; female homemaking.