In Upon the Burning of Our House, by Anne Bradstreet, readers are being told about a person who goes to bed and wakes up to find their house being burned to the ground with all of her possessions in it. The main point of the poem is that your earthly possessions don’t really matter in the long run because it is only temporary; People are ultimately going to heaven and the “mighty architect” (Bradstreet Line 44), is going to provide for them. It seems that in the poem, the speaker is trying to remind herself of this when she says “Then straight I’gin my heart to chide, and did thy wealth on earth abide? Didst fix thy hope on mould’ring dust,” (Bradstreet Line 37-39). This all ties together with the Puritan belief that spiritual wealth is more
