The poem “Verses Upon Our Burning House” by Anne Bradstreet expresses Puritan values, which were piety, courage, and industry, because in the poem Anne is witnessing everything that she owns going up in flames. The items that she furnished her house with where very important to her and it shows the reader how industrialized her and her family has become. When she says “Then, coming out, behold a space, The flame consume my dwelling place.” and “That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just.” She is talking about all the things that her and her family have bought and made in this new land and how they have industrialized and made a home, that is now turning to ashes. After she comes to terms with what is happening all
