Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666,” describes the horrific night Anne was awoken to her house on fire and the internal struggles, both emotionally and spiritually, she faced while witnessing it burn to ash. Her Puritan values greatly influenced her writing style and content, which was especially notable in this poem with the constant tug between her spiritual values and earthly valuables. The Puritans were a religious group in the late 16th and 17th centuries that became noted for a spirit of religious and moral intensity.
In this poem, Bradstreet goes to bed on one night, and she is not expecting any sorrows because according to the Puritans ' values and beliefs, they believe that …show more content…
This refers to the use of two successive lines that rhyme. The poem is made up of rhyming couplets. Through the entire poem, Bradstreet is crying out to her God not to leave her helpless after her house is engulfed by fire. The rhyming couplets are as a result of tension between Bradstreet 's attachment to earthly things and her awareness that she is supposed to focus only on God and break up her ties to the world.
Bradstreet also employs the use of plain style in writing her poem. She uses simple but precise words that are orderly arranged. This is an influence due to the beliefs of the Puritans. Most Puritans believed in simplicity, and this is why the poet uses simple words. They also believed that God 's words could not be improved by the decorations of human beings. Therefore the poet uses simple words so that anyone can be able to understand the message that she is trying to convey in her poem. The plain style also does not hide how the poet feels about her …show more content…
The Puritans had a strong belief that anything that happens to a person it is God that arranges for it to happen. The common Puritan beliefs of Bradstreet made her accept that her loss was from God and it was a spiritually essential thing to have occurred to her, and the burning of her house was only to fight her family 's sins of material idols. This was according to the beliefs of the Puritans.
Work cited
Bradstreet, Anne. “Here Follows Some Versus upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature, edited by Nina Baym, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013, 122.
Friedman, Rachelle E. “Puritanism As a Cultural and Intellectual Force.” Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, edited by Cayton, Mary Kupiec and Peter W. Williams, Gale, 2001. Credo Reference, Accessed 18 Oct
In this poem, Bradstreet goes to bed on one night, and she is not expecting any sorrows because according to the Puritans ' values and beliefs, they believe that …show more content…
This refers to the use of two successive lines that rhyme. The poem is made up of rhyming couplets. Through the entire poem, Bradstreet is crying out to her God not to leave her helpless after her house is engulfed by fire. The rhyming couplets are as a result of tension between Bradstreet 's attachment to earthly things and her awareness that she is supposed to focus only on God and break up her ties to the world.
Bradstreet also employs the use of plain style in writing her poem. She uses simple but precise words that are orderly arranged. This is an influence due to the beliefs of the Puritans. Most Puritans believed in simplicity, and this is why the poet uses simple words. They also believed that God 's words could not be improved by the decorations of human beings. Therefore the poet uses simple words so that anyone can be able to understand the message that she is trying to convey in her poem. The plain style also does not hide how the poet feels about her …show more content…
The Puritans had a strong belief that anything that happens to a person it is God that arranges for it to happen. The common Puritan beliefs of Bradstreet made her accept that her loss was from God and it was a spiritually essential thing to have occurred to her, and the burning of her house was only to fight her family 's sins of material idols. This was according to the beliefs of the Puritans.
Work cited
Bradstreet, Anne. “Here Follows Some Versus upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature, edited by Nina Baym, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013, 122.
Friedman, Rachelle E. “Puritanism As a Cultural and Intellectual Force.” Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, edited by Cayton, Mary Kupiec and Peter W. Williams, Gale, 2001. Credo Reference, Accessed 18 Oct