LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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The Sky Tree
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Verses Upon the Burning of Our House
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -She wrote it to express the traumatic loss of her home and most of her possessions. However, she expands the understanding that God had taken them away in order for her family to live a more pious life. Bradstreet feels guilty that she is hurt from losing earthly possessions.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666” (sometimes attributed a longer title: “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our house, July 10th. 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper.”) by Anne Bradstreet is a poem written in couplets in iambic tetrameter.
Detailed explanation-4: -Major Themes in “Verses upon the Burning of our House”: Faith and acceptance are the major themes of this poem. The poem narrates a tragic incident that destroyed her home. It represents the internal struggle of the speaker whose earthly house turned into ashes.
Detailed explanation-5: -In silent night when rest I took, And, when I could no longer look, He might of All justly bereft, Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest; No pleasant tale shall ‘ere be told, Then streight I gin my heart to chide, Thou hast an house on high erect. More items