Research Paper on:
Colonial Age and Wilderness Literature

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filled with mystery, perceived savagery, and dangers abounded at every corner. It was an "untamed" land that was incredibly different from England, and it was a frightening land which required  the individuals possess strong wit and powerful determination. Bearing that in mind we first examine Book III, Chapter I from John Smiths "General History of Virginia." The paper then examines  Book I, Chapter I, from William Bradfords "Of Plymouth Plantation." These works are discussed as they relate to the notion of wilderness. Lastly the paper examines the imagery and figures  of speech that are present in some of the poems of Anne Bradstreet, an experimental poetess. The poems examined are "To my Dear and Loving Husband" and "The Author to  her Book." John Smith In this chapter we see the men in the story undergoing harsh realities as they faced the wilderness, and an environment that held  little for their "civilized" comforts. In the beginning we note the following in these regards: "Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst  us could either go, or well stand, such extreme weakness and sickness oppressed us....While the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the  sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained niether tavern, beerhouse, nor place of relief, but the common  kettle" (Smith). He indicated "Our drink was water, our lodgings castles in the air. With this loding and diet, our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and  bruised us, and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause to have made us as miserable in our native country or