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English 04 Philippine Literature
Literature of U.S Colonial
Notable works
RELIGIONPoetry
The American colonies had houses of Worship, but what the people
learned those Church services depended where they lived.
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Religion in colonial America was prominent force from the first settlers onward. The earliest settlers in New England brought puritanism to this country , creating significant social order centered around religious belief.
Persecution of Christians in the roman empire began with the stoning of the deacon Stephen and continued intermittently over the period of about three centuries until the 313 Edict of Milan. issued by Roman emperor s Constantine and Licinius when Christianity Legalized.
POETRY
Poetry- is a piece of Literature written by a poet in meteor or verse expressing various emotionswhich expressed by variety of different techniques including metaphor, similes and onomatopoeia which explained in the above of definitions and different examples
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Types of PoetryEpic poems Rymes
Ballad poems
Odes
AllegoryLyric poetry
Sonnets
Whitman (1819–1892) was a working man, a traveler, a self-
appointed nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and a poetic innovator. His magnum opus
was Leaves of Grass, in which he uses a free-flowing verse and lines of
irregular length to depict the all-inclusiveness of American
democracy.
Whitman writes: "These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages
and lands, they are not original with me..."
Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir Life on the Mississippi and the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous – changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents.
The Colonial Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
One of the earliest Colonial writers in whom these medieval thought patterns can be found was the Puritan poet, Anne Bradstreet [1612?-1672], who emigrated from England with the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a young bride of 18. She deserves students' attention because she was the first poet of either sex to write a considerable body of work in America; and because the poetry is good, displaying considerable insight and flashes of humor. Like other girls from good families in the 17th century, Anne was educated at home, beginning at an early age.
Anne Bradstreet was the first woman poet to be published in colonial America. Her widely-praised poems, sacred and secular in nature, were published in London in 1650 and posthumously published in an expanded compilation in Boston in 1678. Bradstreet's poetry is not only significant for her breadth of subjects--home and family, nature, history, philosophy, and religion--but also for her sensitivity to the prejudices against women's writings. This volume is part of the Library's extensive American Imprint Collection, books printed in the United States before 1801.
A letter to his husband
By night when other soundly slept
American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and
lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. There was no written
literature among the more than 500 different Indian
languages and tribal cultures that existed in North America
before the first Europeans arrived. As a result, Native American oral literature is
quite diverse. Narratives from quasi-nomadic hunting
cultures like the Navajo are different from stories of
settled agricultural tribes such as the pueblo-dwelling
Acoma; the stories of northern lakeside dwellers such as the Ojibwa often differ radically from stories of desert tribes
like the Hopi.
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Submitted to: Ms. Hebia
Submitted by: Ms. Mishelle Manguera