As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.

单项选择题In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.

单项选择题______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.