Answer:
- The religious beliefs of American Indian and European cultures.
- The daily life in American Indian tribes and British colonies.
- The struggle to survive long journeys and harsh landscapes.
- The challenge of establishing a government and enforcing laws.
- The desire for freedom and self-governance.
Poetry often reflects the concerns of daily life of the authors, and early American literature is not an exception. The topics that were discussed in this early period matched the main concerns of colonists, such as adapting to a new territory and building a new society.
Some of the main authors of this time period are Edward Taylor, Michael Whigglesworth, Nicholas Noyes, Daniel Gookin and Alexander Whitaker.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat.
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog.
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly.
Perhaps she’ll die
Multiple Intelligence theory explains that there are many types of human intelligence that have different ways of processing information.
