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'She's Laid My Goods Now In The Dust'

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Her feelings towards losing all of her stuff is she doesn’t really care that much because of her religion. In the poem it says “ I blest his name that gave and took, that laid my goods now in the dust” (bradstreet, 29) which basically means that she thinks that God gave her those goods and he has taken them away from her. She believes that since her house burned down that God is the person that can took her goods away. In the beginning of the poem she did care and was upset that her house and everything she owned burned down but once the poem went on she began to think about all that she has lost and begins to not care about her things burning down. She said towards the end that since her house burned down she wouldn’t need the goods and

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