moment being reminded of His love and the next wondering if your faith is for naught. In the poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House‚ July 10th‚ 1666” Bradstreet cries out to God to not leave her to deal with the loss of her house and then not five lines later she bless Him for giving and taking away (Bradstreet lines 8-14). Here is a woman who has literally watched her entire house burn to the ground yet she is able to give thanks to God. According to John Winthrop‚ who was the
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providing her with relief and comfort while she grieves. Likewise‚ Anne Bradstreet conveys her faith in God’s constant influence in her poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House‚ July 10th‚ 1666;”
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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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In her poem “Here Follow Some Verses…”‚ Bradstreet talks about the events in which her house burned down. One of the topics that she stops herself from diving into is her mourning over the loss of her personal possessions. This topic resurfaces twice in the poem and both times Bradstreet stops herself as if talking about it is a sin. The first time when she stops herself from morning is within the lines 14-20. Bradstreet writes‚ “I blest His name that gave and took‚ that laid my goods now in the
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Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet LITERARY FOCUS: THE PLAIN STYLE The Puritans favored “plainness” in all things: in dress‚ in the architecture and design of their churches‚ in their forms of worship‚ and in language. Unlike the ornate “high style” popular in England at the time‚ the Puritan plain style used simple sentences and common words from everyday speech. The plain style contained few or no classical allusions‚ Latin quotations‚ or elaborate figures of speech. The plain
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believable to the reader. For example‚ in her poem “Verses upon the Burning of our House” her house had burnt down and she does feel bad about it‚ but believed it was the will of God to take away the material things with what she was attached to. She thought‚ God was teaching her a lesson not to get attached to the materialistic things and that to set her heart above. “Raise up thy thoughts above the sky. That dunghill mists away may fly. Thou hast an house in high erect‚ framed by that mighty architect”
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all her books and belonging turned into ashes. In order to pay homage to her library she wrote‚ Upon the Burning of Our House. • Anne’s audience ranges since it was never intended to be published. • She was known for writing to her husband‚ her poem‚ To My Dear and Loving Husband‚ and‚ A Letter to Her Husband‚ Absent Upon Publick Employment‚ was dedicated to him. • Her poem‚ Upon the Burning of Our House‚ was intended for her family to remember their grand library. • A good majority of her works
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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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filthy lucre." Little wonder that these politicians conspired with others to fire Edwards some months later." They seem to defend whatever Edwards says‚ but it true what he is saying towards the government economically. On the poem‚ “Upon the Burning of Our House”‚ Bradstreet says that “There lay that store I counted best. My pleasant things in ashes lie.” She wasn’t worried about her house when it was burning down‚ even with her precious items that she had because her husband belonged to the rich
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Determining whether the God you praise and worship is choleric because of your presence by the sins you’ve created is a never ending battle in the 17th-18th centuries. Upon the Burning of Our House is a poem‚ with nine stanzas‚ written by Anne Bradstreet explaining her understanding and able to live and learn from sin with God. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a work‚ written as a sermon‚ by Jonathan Edwards who preaches to all the non-Puritan sinners‚ that if they don’t convert and take blame
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