Upon The Burning Of Our House By Anne Bradstreet
“Upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666”, a poem by Anne Bradstreet. This poem describes her reaction of waking up, running around the house, and a fearful sound of “Fire!” and “Fire!”, because her house was broken down. She struggles a lot with her materialism. But after all, she wasn’t discouraged and she didn’t lose hope even in the helpless situation because, Christ is the one who said “Fear not for I am with thee”. She woke up by hearing the sound of loud noises, and screaming on fire. And heartily, she wished that no one may have this situation in their life because she states “Let no man know is my desire,” (Line 6). At this fearful and tragic time, she put God first and asked for his help to calm her down and to give her strength.
To see that her dwelling earthly home was breaking into ashes in front of her eyes. . But now she no longer loops back in her tragic past instead she is blessing god by referring a quote that is “who both takes and gives away”. And she says that whatever happened in her life was completely fair because it all belonged to god not her. After all, at some moment of time she passes through her ruined house and use to look at the familiar spots like, where she used to sit in the house and now, no guest can sit under her roof or eat at her table again. And she waves goodbye to her ruined house. Finally, she has begun scolding herself by saying that, “Was your treasure on this earth?” “Did you fix your hopes on things that turned to dust?” (Line 38 and 39) And says that we have a house that stands high above, built by a great architect and filled with his glory. And that house lasts forever, though the one on earth is gone. Since Jesus Christ bought this house with his life, which is more precious gift that anyone can know, and that’s all wealth she is bothered about; and says goodbye to all the earthly belongings and said that she will no longer love things in this world; thus her hope and treasure are in heaven.
To see that her dwelling earthly home was breaking into ashes in front of her eyes. . But now she no longer loops back in her tragic past instead she is blessing god by referring a quote that is “who both takes and gives away”. And she says that whatever happened in her life was completely fair because it all belonged to god not her. After all, at some moment of time she passes through her ruined house and use to look at the familiar spots like, where she used to sit in the house and now, no guest can sit under her roof or eat at her table again. And she waves goodbye to her ruined house. Finally, she has begun scolding herself by saying that, “Was your treasure on this earth?” “Did you fix your hopes on things that turned to dust?” (Line 38 and 39) And says that we have a house that stands high above, built by a great architect and filled with his glory. And that house lasts forever, though the one on earth is gone. Since Jesus Christ bought this house with his life, which is more precious gift that anyone can know, and that’s all wealth she is bothered about; and says goodbye to all the earthly belongings and said that she will no longer love things in this world; thus her hope and treasure are in heaven.