In the poem we have just read by Anne Bradstreet she discusses how she is mourning the lost of her things that went up in flames. In the poem she goes back in forth on whether she is upset about the loss of her personal items, or she, is okay with it because god gave her those things and he is allowed to take them back. At the very end of the poem you realize how she truly feels when Bradstreet says, “My hope and treasure lies above”(Bradstreet, 29). This quote is said she is okay with the loss of her personal things because the real treasure she wants is up above. Many times in the poem Anne Bradstreet have to tell her to stop mourning the lost of the items. Her religion requires her to think all of her personal items, are just items. They
