Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet LITERARY FOCUS: THE PLAIN STYLE The Puritans favored “plainness” in all things: in dress, in the architecture and design of their churches, in their forms of worship, and in language. Unlike the ornate “high style” popular in England at the time, the Puritan plain style used simple sentences and common words from everyday speech. The plain style contained few or no classical allusions, Latin quotations, or elaborate figures of speech. The plain
text, or maybe a poem called, “Upon the Burning of Our House”, by Anne Bradstreet, to see how well words can be put together to contemplate a life-like experience. Jonathan was born in 1703 and was a child prodigy at Yale University, which led him to become a Puritan minister later in life, which greatly affected his writing style. Whereas Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in England and had been brought up well
“traitors” to their mother country, Great Britain, before and this showed in their literature. 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
something we as humans all all Puritans strive to have. Who would not want to see God? In Bradstreet's poem “ Upon the Burning of Our House”, she compares her home to the Heaven above. “ My hope and treasure lies above”(54). She gave all of her faith into her home and trusted that because her home was “ in order” that God would accept her completely. However the Lord said “ Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live” (Isaiah 38:1). When the Lord said this to his people, he didn’t actually
their Lord. This essay will be covering the beliefs of the Puritans and how they practice their religion. The Puritans trusted God through thick and then, and counted on him to make a way through troubling times. As read in the poem, Upon the burning of our house “And to my God my heart did cry{Bradstreet 8} To strengthen me in my distress”{Bradstreet 9}. In the poem Bradstreet was praying for strength in a time which she was afraid.She was not afraid to admit that she was in distress showing that
exemplified her struggle between earthly desires and heavenly truths: the blaze that overtook her family's home. Anne Bradstreet, in her poem "Verses upon the Burning of Our House," demonstrates the common internal conflict of Christians as she battles between her Puritan theology and her innate human emotions in response to her devastating house fire. Anne was born in the early seventeenth century in England. She was privileged with an excellent education because her father, Thomas Dudley, was a steward
poem,Upon the Burning of Our House,she mourns her things being burned down in the house fire. However, she realises later that it was God "that gave and took" and she should not "repine", saying that God gave her these materialistc objects and now he is taking it back because she was too attached to them. Therefore she says he saved them "a house above" with himself as "the mighty architect", which also relates to him building his plan to purposely take away the objects and the house from her, for
1700’s and 1800’s, American literature progressively developed. The American writers stressed different themes depending on the era they were writing in. During the Colonial era, Anne Bradstreet wrote a poem describing her puritan view on her house burning down. Esther Edwards writes “The Awful Sweetness of Walking with G-d”, a diary entry describing her daily life being part of a very religious family. During the revolutionary era, Benjamin Franklin published an article that offers advice on improving
Thesis statement: Using the Calvinist/Puritan concept of Total Depravity/Inability and Demine non sum dingus, compare and contrast Anne Bradstreet 's poem "Upon the Burning of Our House" with Edward Taylor 's poem "Prologue". The poems under discussion are Anne Bradstreet 's poem "Upon the Burning of Our House" and Edward Taylor 's poem "Prologue." Taylor’s poem focused on the question that is: can any author be equal to god’s grace? In the first line, he compares himself to the crumb of dust which
from infancy about “the importance of renouncing earthly nourishment and affection in favor of ‘spiritual milk’”, (“Weaned Affections”) many Puritans may still have had a difficult time with mastering this spiritual ideal. In “Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666,” Bradstreet depicts how the loss of her home is initially challenging for her to endure through her reminiscing of how she will miss her physical possessions and how her home enabled her to fulfill her duties as a wife and