While nowadays Anne Bradstreet may be well respected, back in the 1600s the Puritans probably didn’t accept her work quite as fondly. For one thing, Anne was a women educated enough to read and write. This was against what puritans believed to be right. In Anne’s poem, “Verses upon the Burning of our House,” she wrote about being attached to her possessions. This was also against the Puritan belief.
Anne writes about missing her conventional items, “My sorrowing eyes aside did cast/ And here and there the places spy/ Where oft I sate and long did die/ Here stood that trunk, and there that chest/ There lay that store I counted best./ My pleasant things in ashes lie/ And them behold no more shall I.” (22-28) demonstrating the pain she felt
Anne writes about missing her conventional items, “My sorrowing eyes aside did cast/ And here and there the places spy/ Where oft I sate and long did die/ Here stood that trunk, and there that chest/ There lay that store I counted best./ My pleasant things in ashes lie/ And them behold no more shall I.” (22-28) demonstrating the pain she felt