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Question: Answer each of the following in a multiple sentence question response. How does gender shape the religious perspective in this week's readings? Discuss the role of nature in Bradstreet's religious contemplations and poetry. Pay specific attention to the grasshopper, the cricket, the storm, and fire (explain what each represents). Explore the ways that Bradstreet chooses to describe her book. What do these particular words/phrases reveal about American life? Both Taylor and Edwards were educated ministers. Discuss their tone and their style as they share their religious views. How do their writings depict Puritan thought? What does Wheatley's poem reveal about the religious atmosphere of the time? What changes are evident in the religious atmosphere of America between the time of the explorers to that of the Enlightenment and Great Awakening?