Response To 'Upon The Burning Of Our House'
Short Response
Questions 1-4 require at least one paragraph to answer the question. Paragraphs will be well developed and grammatically correct. Read each question very carefully and answer them completely.
1. What does the speaker learn from the fire in the poem “Upon the Burning of Our House”? Use three details from the poem and explain response with textual support. (1 paragraph)
The speaker learns that nothing really belongs to them that it all get claimed by god eventually even if they think it’s theirs for the time being it all gets claimed by God.( lines 14-17) Yet by his gift made thine own; theirs wealth enough, I need no more. The speaker in this part of the poem is saying how she doesn’t need her belongings because god is now taking them from her to …show more content…
Fire! (lines 4-5) This shows how bad the fire was and how scared the people were. They exaggerate the happenings to get more emotion and reactions to get the reader more attached to the poem. 2. List and tell why three elements from each of Bradstreet’s poems that still apply to people today. (2 paragraphs)
Anne Bradstreet's poem To my dear and loving husband tells how is two were ever one the wide would be happy in a man (lines 2-3) This applies to modern day people because most people only want one man or one woman to make and keep them happy. In the poem Huswifery it talk about how people should take their accomplishments and show them to everyone like a piece of clothing or something that people see out in the open. Then my apparel shall display to ye, That i am clothed in robes of glory. (lines 17-18
In the second poem of Anne Bradstreet's Upon the burning of our house it says laid my goods now in the dust for it was his own and not mine to repine. (lines 15-18) People in the religious setting nowadays speak to god and rely on him to help save them and believe that everything they see or have ever known belongs to
Questions 1-4 require at least one paragraph to answer the question. Paragraphs will be well developed and grammatically correct. Read each question very carefully and answer them completely.
1. What does the speaker learn from the fire in the poem “Upon the Burning of Our House”? Use three details from the poem and explain response with textual support. (1 paragraph)
The speaker learns that nothing really belongs to them that it all get claimed by god eventually even if they think it’s theirs for the time being it all gets claimed by God.( lines 14-17) Yet by his gift made thine own; theirs wealth enough, I need no more. The speaker in this part of the poem is saying how she doesn’t need her belongings because god is now taking them from her to …show more content…
Fire! (lines 4-5) This shows how bad the fire was and how scared the people were. They exaggerate the happenings to get more emotion and reactions to get the reader more attached to the poem. 2. List and tell why three elements from each of Bradstreet’s poems that still apply to people today. (2 paragraphs)
Anne Bradstreet's poem To my dear and loving husband tells how is two were ever one the wide would be happy in a man (lines 2-3) This applies to modern day people because most people only want one man or one woman to make and keep them happy. In the poem Huswifery it talk about how people should take their accomplishments and show them to everyone like a piece of clothing or something that people see out in the open. Then my apparel shall display to ye, That i am clothed in robes of glory. (lines 17-18
In the second poem of Anne Bradstreet's Upon the burning of our house it says laid my goods now in the dust for it was his own and not mine to repine. (lines 15-18) People in the religious setting nowadays speak to god and rely on him to help save them and believe that everything they see or have ever known belongs to