How Did Anne Bradstreet Reflect Her Values In Upon The Burning Of Our House

Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet in the 1600's. She was married at 16 to a loving husband and the father of her eight children. Bradstreet became famous unknowingly when her poem book "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America... By a Gentlewoman in Those parts" was published in England. In this book, Bradstreet wrote a poem called "Upon the Burning of Our House". This poem reflects on her values of afterlife. Bradstreet believes there is a God who created the heavens and the Earth. The author presents, "I blest His name that gave and took,/ That laid my goods now in the dust./ Yea, so it was, and so 'twas just./ It was his own, it was not mine,/ Far be it that I should repine" (14-18). This explains that she believes that God in heaven