LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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unreal to the speaker.
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appealing to the speaker.
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frightening to the speaker.
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distant and remote to the speaker.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bradstreet feels guilty that she is hurt from losing earthly possessions. It is against her belief that she should feel this way; showing she is a sinner. Her deep puritan beliefs brought her to accept that the loss of material was a spiritually necessary occurrence.
Detailed explanation-2: -The speaker, generally taken as Bradstreet herself, grieves the loss her home and all her material possessions, but also argues that this tragedy was God’s way of teaching her a spiritual lesson about the value of piety and faith.
Detailed explanation-3: -The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust.
Detailed explanation-4: -While Bradstreet speaks on a variety of themes, such as loss, sorrow, and material wealth, the main focus of this poem is on God and religion. In the fifty-four lines of the pome Bradstreet details her emotional experience on the night that her home burned down and she lost all of her material possessions.