Huswifery Essay

The title of this poem, “Huswifery”, directly seems to imply that the poem would be about housework, and home life. Since this is written during the Puritan era, housework would most likely mean the business of a housewife, and what she does at home. But, this is more or less a literal interpretation of the title when being related to the poem. The main significance of the title is symbolic. It’s about how the items a housewife uses, and on how those items are used to create a relationship between the speaker and God.
The poem seems to start off and end with a beginning, middle, and end. The beginning starts off with the speaker giving himself up to God to be purified from the sins he carries. The middle is the process of having the speaker being purified and having him follow God. The end depicts the final

Taylor seems to compare himself to the spinning wheel that is responsible for creating the cloth, and has God control the wheel. This shows Taylor submitting his will to God. This shows the speaker trying to become purified and follow God’s will. When he says, "Thine ordinances make my fulling mills" he means that he wants to become purified like God, so that he can be glorified under Him. "Fulling mills,” literally means to take a dirty cloth, and clean it so that there is no more dirt on it. Similarly, this is how the speaker wants to be about his religious views. When starting off creating something with a spinning wheel, it is small. But, as time passes, in the end, the product is complete. The speaker might be trying to do the same thing with religion. His faith in God may have started off small, but as time passes, his faith in God is and increased, and is now huge. The speaker wants to follow in God’s footsteps and give himself up to Him. Another trope in this poem is symbolism. Symbolism is used when all throughout his poem since Taylor represents the cloth and the spinning wheel to his life, and