Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
...rneys and his approach to moral perfection. Olaudah Equiano also wrote an autobiography called, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. He wanted to inform people about the hardships of the slaves and the rough things that he had gone through at such a young age. Thomas Paine, who also wrote during the Revolutionary Period, wrote The Crisis, No. 1. This article was mainly Thomas Paine commenting on the war and trying to persuade people not to give up the fight. In the Colonial Period, Anne Bradstreet wrote a poem called, “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” This poem was not like Ben Franklin’s autobiography or Thomas Paine’s article. It was about the love for her husband rather than about her own life and what she had gone through. Edward Taylor wrote a poem called “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly.” In this poem, Edward Taylor was trying to describe the reaction of humans to God and Satan which is very different from the autobiographies of the Revolutionary Period. The Revolutionary Period mainly focused on the founding American nation and the development of a distinct American character in philosophy. For example, one of Thomas Paine’s articles, The Crisis, No. 1, was him persuading Americans to get involved in the war. Although, the Colonial Period focused more on their religion and God and the Bible and about the lives of the Puritans. Edward Taylor’s, “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” represents puritan writing because it portrays God as omnipotent and his purpose in writing this poem was to describe the relation of humans to God and Satan. Mary Rowlandson’s, who wrote “A Narrative of Her Captivity,” main purpose in writing her story was to reveal God’s purpose. Anne Bradstreet’s poetry was greatly influenced by her personal religious beliefs as shown in her poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House.” The Revolutionary and Colonial Periods were also alike. Both Revolutionary and Colonial Periods had many narrative writings. Although some were written ...