Is what we crave in life truly more important than love for God? Poet Anne Bradstreet details the differences in values for her loved ones and her faith in God through her poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”. Being that she was a Puritan, her beliefs impacted the way she looked at and thought about many things in life; mainly relationships with her husband and God. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Anne Bradstreet writes deeply about…
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…
worthless because they were temporarily, unlike God and heaven because they were eternal and they only things that really mattered. Puritans did everything they could to please God, for example in the poem Upon the Burning of our House, by Anne Bradstreet, she was devastated when her house burned down and all of her belong were completely gone. When Bradstreet wrote “and to my God my heart did cry” she talks about how broken she was, as if she had just walked around with tiny shards of glass in…
Next, in Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Upon the Burning of our House” exemplifies that the future will always be better than the past. She thanks God for saving her family in the fire and was calm and content with what she had while watching her house burn to ashes. Bradstreet is showing the values of the Puritan lifestyle through the way she thanks God for her family as her house is burning; the effect of Puritan writing is important to her view of faith in God. In the…
1. Anne Bradstreet [Verses Upon the Burning of Our House] In this poem Anne Bradstreet portrays how the burning of her house gave her a new sense in what was really important. She question [didst thy wealth on earth abide?]. She is asking herself is earthly wealth important compared to what God has prepared for us in heaven. This contrasts to Edward's [Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God] beacause in this poem God seems like a loving and caring god who has given us things, take it away, only to…
works, including poems and essays. In “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10. 1666”, Anne Bradstreet adheres to her Puritan conventions by stating that God is always justified in his actions because he has created a divine plan in which everyone and everything has its place. After burning down Anne’s house, she convinces herself everything is okay because God will let her into heaven, “Thou hast a house on high erect / Fram'd by that mighty Architect…” (43-44). As…
and even identical religious opinions. In the pieces of work “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and “Upon the Burning of our House”, the authors have two polar opposite religious opinions. The author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” ,Jonathan Edwards, feels that God is more of an angry God versus the opinions of Anne Bradstreet, the author of “Upon the Burning of our House”, who feels that God is more of a gracious God. Their opinions are very contradicting, but do have a few…
rules that the religion follows. The poet utilizes diction and allusion to connect with past biblical reference. Bradstreet uses diction to symbolize what she is saying about puritans and what is expected of them. In “Verse Upon the Burning of the House,” the author states, “I blest His name that gave and took, that laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, do it was, and so ‘twas just, it was His own, it was not mine,” (Bradstreet 14-17). The quote demonstrates how…
Verses upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet. To understand the poem better, we have to know a little about Anne Bradstreet. In a biography by Ann Woodlief, it was noted that “Anne seems to have written poetry primarily for herself, her family, and her friends” (Woodlief) Like many Puritan women she felt dominated by the strong male presence. Even though she was quite unusual for a woman of the time, primarily due to…
In 1666 Anne Bradstreet wrote Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666. According to Wayne Franklin, this poem was part of a copy of the second edition of poems (1678) that Bradstreet wrote, and was found in Reverend Edward Taylor’s library (Franklin, Wayne, page 187-188). In this poem she writes about the burning of her house as God’s doing. Even though it was hard for her in the beginning of the poem to assimilate she was losing everything she owned, as the poem…