Anne Bradstreet Vs Upon The Burning Of Our House

In Anne Bradstreet poem she ask herself if her love of her wordly treasures caused god to set her house ablazed and scarched her husband “ didst fix thy hope mouldering dust”

This quote is from Anne Bradstreet's poem, Upon the Burning of Our House, and shows Bradstreet's

In “To my Dear children” Anne Bradstreet describes her physical, spiritual and emotional struggles in life and how she applied the solutions. She states many claim, but her main claim is how her religion or Puritan faith has helped her to overcome many things in her life. She uses diction in order to support the main claim. She also wrote this poem in order to guide her kids through their struggles.

Anne Bradstreet’s education gave her advantages, which allowed her to write about politics, history, medicine, and theology legally. She use to have her own library of over 9000 books but over half of them were destroyed in the fire when her house burned down. Her house burning down actually inspired her to write the poem “Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666.” She was constantly reflecting her anger and grief from the tragedy of her house burning and instead of being mad, she looks towards god and heaven as a consolation. Whenever she was a younger writer, she wrote 5 epic poems of four parts of speech that explored the diverse natures of their

During the seventeenth century, Puritan literature dominated American culture. Two major authors of this style of prose are Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards. Both Bradstreet’s, “Upon a Burning of Our Home,” and Edward’s, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” demonstrate characteristics of Puritan literature. These and Bradstreet and Edwards other literary works focused on their relationship with God and attempted to grow the Puritan church by converting their readers. Although their mission was the same, they utilized different emotional tones and rationals to persuade their readers to give their lives to God.

Bradstreet feels guilty for pondering over losing her possessions, because of her religion and lifestyle. Deep inside of her heart she feels grief from losing her things, but she faces a internal struggle because she fears feeling sadness when Puritan’s believe strongly that God makes everything happen for a reason.

Anne Bradstreet was awakened by a monstrous clap of thunder and people screaming “fire.” She isn’t immediately found thinking about her items, but more caught on how she should get out of her house. When finally aware of everything that has taken place she is awestruck. She cannot believe that all of her once precious belongings are now ashes among the ground. Bradstreet’s poem doesn’t directly explain how she feels about her possessions before her house was engorged in flames. It can be understood however by how she is so distraught after the fire. Still looking at the ashes, Bradstreet is found picturing her trunk, chest, store, and other possessions in the ashes. She even has “sorrowing eyes” at one point when looking at the ashes. Her crying and picturing her possessions is an excellent detail to describe how much she cared about them. She continues to explain the sheer magnitude of the fire by saying there no roof for a guest, and not even a table to eat at for herself. Anne Bradstreet lists off more things she will no longer be able to do in her house. Things she listed include; tales being told, candles being lit, and her bridegroom’s voice being heard. She ends her mourning by giving her last words to the house saying it will stay in silence forever. At this point in the story, Bradstreet starts to remember and realize how much she treasures her possessions. Bradstreet felt like a fool for paying so much attention and focus on earthly things. She continues with saying how wealth on earth should not have been her main focus because wealth on earth should mean nothing. Bradstreet later exclaims “The arm of flesh didst make thy trust,” meaning she doesn’t understand how her body could let her get caught up in all of these foolish things. She then turns her thoughts and mind up to God. She is asking God to forgive her for all of the wrongs she has committed by making objects important. She also requests upon God to carry away her “dunghill” of a house in the wind. Her main reasoning

Although she had often questioned the strict concept of her judgmental God, as God was Anne’s almighty idol, she had never hesitated to trust the actual existence of her higher being. Her knowing of God throughout this poem shows her respect, devotion, and dedication to her real Puritan beliefs as well as her passion for the spiritual world. In stanzas 25-34, she is describing being filled with memories when she watches her property blaze to the ground. “Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, there lay that store I counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie and them behold no more shall under thy roof no guest shall sit, nor at thy table eat a bit.

For Anne Bradstreet, the closeness of God to the soul is essential to not only understanding life, but coming to terms with devastation and loss. Bradstreet’s journey to God is best explained by Job 1:21 which says “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Her belief is exemplified through her poem “Versus upon the Burning of Our House.” One of her first reactions while she is watching her home burn to the ground is look up to the sky and say “strengthen me in my distress and not leave me succorless.” Throughout the entire poem, Bradstreet constantly references how God will help her rebuild her life and strengthen her soul. During the middle of the poem, she talks about all of her lost material things like

Upon the Burning of Our House, written by Anne Bradstreet, describes a rather sad event in which her lovely house is burnt to the ground. In her efforts to relay her emotions she utilizes a variety of literary devices such as vivid imagery, assonance and biblical allusions. The poem gives description of how she felt during the very event, how she feels as she passes the ruins of her once erect household and how she came to the realization that she would get through the experience with God by her side. The poem (as per usual of Anne Bradstreet) employs rhyming couplets, these were used to apply emphasize on her attachment towards her house but then is later used to give awareness to the fact that all earthly things pass away leaving nothing

I cannot help but cheer for women who break societal standards and take control of their own lives. Anne Bradstreet did just so in the 17th century by having her poems published, in a time where her authorship was questioned solely because of her sex (Lauter 395). Her voice roars throughout her poetry as the penned words evoke her godly conviction and love for her family. Primarily, her religious faith is strongly present in her pieces. I appreciate Bradstreet’s reliance on God in her poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House”; she takes comfort in the fact that God will provide, calling all her destroyed belongings mere “vanity” (409). In her final letter to her children, she explained her reason for writing was so “that [they] may gain some spiritual

One prominent theme throughout Colonial literature is the importance of God. Puritan author, Anne Bradstreet, made this apparent in her poem, The Burning of Our House. Instead of feeling the emotions of anger and sadness due to the fact all of her belongings were destroyed, she looked at the fire as a sign from God that he was taking his possessions that were rightfully his. Colonial literature is rich in Puritan voices and, consequently, Puritan beliefs.

Anne Bradstreet was the most well-known of early English poets of North America and first female writer in England 's North American colonies to be published. She was also an important Puritan figure in American Literature. Bradstreet wrote many poems such as In Memory of My Dear Grandchild-Elizabeth Bradstreet. Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and Half Old and Upon the Burning of Our House. In Memory of My Dear Grandchild was about her grandchild named Elizabeth Bradstreet who died being a year and half old. Throughout the poem, she mourned for the baby’s death while accepting God’s will. In Upon the Burning of Our House, she talked the burning of her house. This paper would show how Ann Bradstreet’s poems have a positive affect on

Anne Bradstreet presents an iambic tetrameter in “Verses upon the Burning of our House”. As the title obviously presents, it’s the story of everything she realized when her house burned to the ground. Bradstreet demonstrates once more how she is fully committed to God and her beliefs. Since the moment she wakes up with shrieks of “fire, fire” her first instinct is to pray and to support and guide her. This poem displays what I can only describe as a clear camouflage of her real pain and perception of that moment her house vanish in front of her.

Puritans often believed that they saw God’s impact on their lives, even when religion might not have been involved. This shows in Bradstreet’s work because she views her sickness as God’s test of her strength (15). In addition, she believes that God is the one who lifted her from the ailment, and she thanks him profusely for allowing her to live. Like “The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” this poem is a piece of work that celebrates God’s life-saving impact on the