Impression on Paine

Thomas Paine was an incredible man and a writer. When reading his work in the textbook, I noticed that he expressed his emotions a lot. With him being a nationalist and wanting freedom for the American colonists, he really expressed a lot. It seemed as he expressed more rather than actually giving actual factual detail over things. I noticed that he exaggurated a lot. Like when he mentions that the king being a murderer, a highway man and something else. Even though the king isn't any of this, Paine is just saying this for exagguration. But he's just trying to show his point. He's trying to show people, especially Loyalists, that they should show some nationalism and be wanting to be free from Great Britain. When Paine writes his Common Sense, thousands of copies are sold throughout the colonies. This book inspired manyn people about independence and becoming free from Great Britain.

Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet is considered the first American poet. That kinda surprised me. WHen you read her poem one way, she seems to be an ideal Puritan wife. But in another way she seems as though she isn't confident. In line 3 of the poem, we see that she really loves her husband. She is grateful & happy with their marriage. When she says "Thy love is such I can no way repay" she's saying that he loves her so much that there's no way that she can repay him, but heaven will. In the poem we see a contrast between spiritual and material. WHen she uses the words: prize, mines or gold, riches, recompense, and repay, she uses material metaphore to describe her love. In the last line however, we see a use of spiritual love.

NA Mythology

Native American mythology focuses a lot on nature and the enviornment. Throughout the myths and legends of Native Americans that we read, there was a lot of references to the nature. Some examples, would be in "SOng of Sky Loom," there is references to the Earth, SKy, rain green grass, and rainbow. THe NA society has respect towards nature and other people, and even towards animals. In our society today, we think that we dominate animals, however, in the NA society, animals and humans were equal. THe Native AMericans didn't look down on the animals. The animals in the legends and myths were very close to the humans, and had humanlike qualitites. THe animals also displayed self sacrifice. For example, in the Raven myths, the owl carries the burning stick in his beak. In response to this, his own beak gets burned and becomes smaller. This shows the sacrifice that he made for the raven. Land was also important for the Native Americans. They believed that Earth was their mother. Since according to them, God created them and their land, God was very wise. He made sure that the humans and the animals were well suited for their enviormnent that they were in. This is seen in "The Blackfoot Legend." The Old Man puts the mountain goat who has one horn on the mountains and the deer on the plains. At first he made a mistake, but he went back to fix what he had done wrong, so the animals were well suited for their enviornment.