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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 by: Ms. Mishelle Manguera