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
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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
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This stanza is from the poem "Upon the burning of Our House" by Puritan woman and poet‚ Anne Bradstreet. In this poem‚ Bradstreet uses plain style and inversions to convey her relationship with God.Bradstreet finds the burning of her house justified and even says "Yea so it was‚ and so ’twas just‚" meaning the fire in her house was fine since‚ according to Puritan beliefs‚ God decides everything that happens Earth so it must have happened for a fair reason. Bradstreet believes that God owns everything
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Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet-in “The Burning of Our House‚” Anne was the narrator of this poem in which she expressed how she felt when her home caught fire. The Entire poem was based on Anne’s emotional state during her time of despair and how her faith helped her through. As I read through the poem I noticed that she spoke of her religious beliefs and her relationship with God throughout the poem. “And to my God my heart did cry‚” (8). In order to understand and relate to this poem the reader
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In "Anne‚" begin with The Author to Her Book‚ which evidently was written as the epigraph to the second edition of her collection of poems. What of her personality as a woman comes through in the poem? In “The Author to Her Book” It is immediate that the reader knows that a woman and a mother wrote this piece. “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain‚ Who after birth did’st by my side remain…” This sentence sets the stage for everything that would come next about her from staying by her
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It is clear that the poem “Upon the Burning of Our House‚” by Anne Bradstreet and the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚” spoken by Jonathan Edwards have not only distinct religious views but also contrasting styles. Anne Bradstreet viewed God as extremely passionate‚ loving‚ and sympathetic to humans but on the contrary‚ Edwards viewed God as harsh‚ angry‚ and disgusted. For example‚ in Bradstreet’s poem‚ she makes numerous statements on how loving God is. In line 54-55‚ she says‚ “He
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them and never challenged it even if they were unhappy with the results. “ Verses upon the Burning of your House”‚ is a poem about a woman‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ who loses all her goods in life but never her faith. Anne Bradstreet displays her faith in God by saying‚ “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‚”(29). Bradstreet was never angry with what happened because she believed there was a greater power
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religious values and beliefs; their life values. The Crucible‚ “Upon the Burning of Our Home”‚ and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ are written by well known Puritans. The Puritans specifically believe that church and state should be separate‚ because they believed that they didn’t need a middleman to God and they could speak to Him themselves. “Upon the Burning of Our Home” is a poem about Anne Bradstreet waking up to her house being on fire. During this fire her attitude changes from “why”
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Puritan religious ideas are found in Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”‚ in which themes of devotion and selfless love for God are present throughout. There are also instances where those religious ideologies clash with the emotional response the speaker of the poem has while watching the burning house; and in this paper I argue that‚ through allusion to scripture and poetic form‚ there are comments on the struggle between knowing scripture and actually
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Anne Bradstreet’s "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House" is a perfect example of Puritan writing. Her faith and values are made apparent within the first ten lines of the poem. The poem is entirely about Anne’s thoughts as she watches her house burn. She makes the readers feel as though they are witnessing their own possessions and houses catch fire. Anne rhymes every couple of lines. This affects the way the poem flows and it allows the reader to process the two rhyming lines together
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