Explaining these choices, he uses hypothetical situations of people living each way of life. Each poem offers to the reader a way to live during their time on this planet. ... Living in anxiety and fear is the second way of life. ... The man is asked if he believes that God, the creator or life, will forgive his sins. ... The third poem begins with a man who is lying on a beach and relaxing. ...
Winthrop thought if Americans humbly and obediently serve God and repent when they have sinned, God would provide protection and prosperity. ... Bradford was a devout Christian living in the 1600's in the colony of Plymouth. ... In her poems, Bradstreet shows boldness throughout her hard times and shares her reflection on God's grace and strength. ...
With the emergence of Sumerian city-states, social organization advanced astonishingly forward into the realm of structured communal living that would pave the way for the birth of writing. ... Religion was especially impacted by the development of literature, as epic poems and myths, such as Atrahasis began to be contrived, which sought to provide their readers with explanations of the unexplainable, establish moral guidelines to be meticulously followed and illustrate the human race's place in the universe among a torrent of fuming gods. ... A Mesopotamian reading this would have take...
