1. In Anne Bradstreet's "Upon a Fire Burning Our House", she comes to the place where she lost everyting she had in a fire and is saddened by the fact that she has lost everything she had. Once she decides that she can "no longer look" at what she had lost, she turns to God. She comes to the conclusion that the things she has was "his[God's] own, it was not mine[her's] and that he took his things back. She decides that love will always forever be in God because he will always be there, unlike her belongings that she had lost.
4. Edward Taylor's poem, "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly", he uses a spider to represent Satan, who
"spins a web...to catch a fly", who is metaphorically man. When the fly gets stuck in the web of "animal entrails" (Taylor),
4. Edward Taylor's poem, "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly", he uses a spider to represent Satan, who
"spins a web...to catch a fly", who is metaphorically man. When the fly gets stuck in the web of "animal entrails" (Taylor),