LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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her husband
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the Lord
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a spinning wheel
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a housewife
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Huswifery” is poem written around 1685 by the Puritan preacher Edward Taylor. The poem is addressed directly to God, making it at once a kind of plea and prayer.
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: -In this poem, the Puritan pastor Edward Taylor (1642 – 1729) likens to the soul’s spiritual formation to the common activities of spinning and weaving-household chores in the undeveloped economy of colonial New England.
Detailed explanation-4: -huswifery (uncountable) (obsolete) The business of a housewife; female homemaking.
Detailed explanation-5: -For example, “Make” and “then” in the second stanza. The speaker wants to be God’s “Loome” on which he knits the “Twine” of his divinity. The yarn, once prepared, will be woven into cloth by God himself. The cloth is worked on further. It will be dyed and purified until it resembles heaven.