Comparison Of Jus Just By Bradstreet And Willliam Bradford

1) In Anne Bradstreet's poem,Upon the Burning of Our House,she mourns her things being burned

By using alliteration, Bradstreet means to emphasize certain words to make sure the reader stops and thinks as to why these words are used. In this poem, she uses it to reiterate her strong feelings towards her possessions at the beginning. She believes she absolutely needs these belongings to feel whole. During the fire, Anne Bradstreet felt as if she had lost a pet or maybe even a child. Her possessions meant more to her than anything. She uses alliteration again towards the end of her poem, however, this time is different. Now Bradstreet notices how vain she really is and asks God for strength in this distress. She understands almost fully that God’s worth is so much greater than anything she’s ever had in her house.

My faith has always been a big part of my life. When I was little I wondered how God did inhuman actions. After my several years at Holy Family I’ve learned that God is almighty as such, I don’t question God and his powers. I still don’t know how God did it, but I will have faith and just follow the path

In her poem, “Verses Upon the Burning of our House,” Anne Bradstreet aids Puritans in recalling their sole purpose: to detach themselves from their earthly belongings and to focus on their faith. Bradstreet juxtaposes “silent night” and “shriek” to convey the emotion of fear. The fear of losing everything she loves, everything she has grown to love and the fear of not being able to get it all back. Her sorrowful tone highlights the beginning stage of her testimony in which she shows confliction towards God’s message to her. This juxtaposition creates an emotion that leads the author to the realization that God has left her with only two things, her family and the promise of eternity. Rather than damning His name for destroying her belongings,

“The Author to Her Book”: As I was reading this poem I gathered several themes that I saw in Bradstreet’s poem. The themes I saw being: hate, appearance, society, and individual. The poem it self is first person as I felt like Anne was describing an event or feeling that she encountered. The tone of the story I felt was misery; Anne acted as if she was miserable in her own body. Reading the poem I felt sorrow in the character. I interpret this poem as Anne feeling less than what she really is, she was unaware of her worth due to her mother and society developing a judgment of Anne that was false throughout her childhood. I was able to make this interpretation as Anne says “My rambling brat should mother call” this was an important line in the story and was somewhat a symbol to the big picture. This stanza tells me what her mother thought of her, and that it bothered Anne. A mother’s influence has a big impact on a child and also their opinion. The

In the poem, “Here Follow Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House” Anne Bradstreet talks about how her house burns with a lot of things that have sentimental value in it too her. Anne’s mood towards a devastating moment too me was so calm. She liked to think of it as a lesson. Anne was so religious that she thought God was teaching her a lesson by burning down her house. Her house burning down in this poem taught Anne in her mind that she was too connected and she loved these earthly vanity so much. She also thinks it is a way of God telling her these things won’t matter in the afterlife and that she loved these things so much.

Having the understanding of faith now produces the assurance to know things will work out. Faith is not measured by material gain nor by assumption. Faith is built on the cornerstone of something or someone, which is a belief. There are many different areas that people believe in within the modern day. For example people have faith in restaurants cooks and servers when it comes to preparing their meals.

Bradstreet’s aim was to communicate to her children the power and the “glory of God” (Bradstreet 235). Within her poem, she emphasized on how she would occasionally abandon her prayers and forget God, only to have found that she forgot and lost herself as well and found herself troubled (Bradstreet 236). She improved herself by being obedient to God and tried to avoid all sins. I was able to link her beliefs and attempts at self-improvement with Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. Both Edwards and Bradstreet continuously tried to improve themselves morally and

Bradstreet's attitude towards the losing her possessions is extremely mellow. In the start of the poem she explains how she's woken up to her family being distressed yelling and screaming “Fire!!” The moment she walked outside and looked at her house her first thought was god. Her thoughts wandered from her faith and her possessions being lost. While she thought about her possessions she quickly shoved them away by looking at the bright side and saying that if god gave them too her then he is able to take them away without her needing to worry. Her mind shifted to thinking maybe this was his way of saying that in heaven she won’t have any of it anyways. This shows how strong her faith is and how strongly she believes in her faith because she

Overall, Bradstreet’s relationship with God is very strong and powerful considering the entire time of all of her possessions being burnt down, her head was on God and reasoning. Her family could be compared to puritans considering that her family is not worried about their things or possessions but about the eternal life that they will live one day without the things. At the end, she realized what was really important, and it wasn’t the house, car, clothes, or any of her objects, it was the relationship she had with God and the people around

Bradstreet in the poem explains how all of her belongings were set on fire. As much as she wanted that to never happen. She thought maybe that all of her possessions going up in flames was a sign from God that maybe she didn’t need all of those things. She was devastated at first at the sight of the fire, but then she started to think to herself about why it happened to her. She thought maybe God was telling her that she didn't need all of that like she thought she did. But deep down as it says in line 52-54, she is always going to miss what she had and that's not gonna change, even if it was a message from God.

I grew with faith in mainly anything involving my life. I always saw faith as something that revolved my childhood. Weather it was having faith in passing my test, or having faith in winning my soccer final, I always saw myself believing in success. Although I’m not as faithful as I used to be, I still see that faith in

My belief in faith comes from my parents. I used to believe that whatever is meant to happen, no matter what we do is going to happen, but life itself made me change my opinion. In the course of my life I have noticed that everything goes well or bad depending on how hard I work for it , but not only that, sometimes there are things that we cannot control, things that are out of our hands. For instance, when I was just 11 years old my mother, Mercedes, was diagnosed with breast cancer. The doctor said that her chance to live was 50%, and the only thing we could do was to have faith and pray to god for her life every day. She received her treatment at the Hospital “9 de Abril” in Villa Clara, Cuba and after a while under treatment she survived the cancer. At this point, I cannot say if my faith had anything to do with her

Why? Because when we have faith, we show that we trust God, that even when we are faced with impossibility we still believe that God can do anything. We show our dependence on God, and we show that we love Him like a small child loves her daddy and looks to him for everything.

To start off with the poem Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet sets up the tone of sadness and says that she was awakened by a noise, a voice screaming “fire” and how heartbreaking it was to lose her home and possessions (Elegy 178). Bradstreet describes how her home looks after the incident. Her and her family have to start all over again. Bradstreet feels like everything has been taken away from her and will not be able to move on in line. She is having feelings of melancholy. Consequently, Bradstreet has an epiphany and says, “Adieu, adieu, all’s vanity” (Elegy 179). This means that she is saying all her possessions are worthless. This is a turning point in Bradstreet’s life that she was gifted with. She now sees how her ambition, potential, and hope can change her future life. She had been taking