Responce to Huswifery

The thing that impressed me the most was definitely the conceit of the spinning wheel throughout the whole poem and how it turned into his robes of glory. Not only how it turned into the robes but also how it transitioned into the robes. How it explained the different parts of the spinning wheel. For example: the distaff was the holy word, and his soul was the spool. The most interesting thing is how it all fits. For example the poem talks about how the thread is the conversation and how it is wrapped around the distaff, which is the holy word. The speaker asks for God to make the holy spirit the wind quills (the object that the thread is wound around). Then it goes to the spool, the soul. So he wants their holy conversation and the holy spirit to be wrapped around his soul. And he later incorporates understanding, will, affections, judgement, conscience, memory, his words, and actions into the robe wrapped around his soul. It is a great metaphor, especially for people during their time to understand who can relate to the house-hold chore of spinning thread.