ABSTRACT
Puritans begun in England during the 17th century, was a radical Protestant movement to reform the Church of England. The idea of a Puritan poet may seem a bit of a contradiction as Puritans disagreed with the practice of using metaphor and verbal flourishes in speech and writing. The chapter considers that there is the dyke where he and his brothers snared the great pike which stole the ducklings. It explains pretty little Patience who stood by trembling, and shrieked at each snap of the brute's wide jaws; and there, down that long dark lode, ruffling with crimson in the sunset-breeze, he and his brothers skated home in triumph with Patience when his uncle died. Dyke loved and married, they brought up children; they feared, they sinned, they sorrowed, they fought, they conquered. There was poetry enough in them, though they acted it like men, instead of singing it like birds.
