ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Anne Bradstreet recognizes God as the creator, the boss, the trailblazer, the innovator, the inventor, the originator-the world itself has been “Fram’d by that mighty Artchitect” (Upon the Burning of our House line 44).

Detailed explanation-2: -Bradstreet sees God as a just one even though he took all of her physical possessions. She takes His justness a step further by saying in lines 18 and 19 that even if He took all of her belongings, it would still be reasonable. Bradstreet also believes in a positive afterlife for herself and most people around her.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “mighty Architect” is God. (Lines 43-50) Lines 43-50 contain an extended metaphor. In your own words, summarize what you think the speaker is describing in the metaphor. She is describing a heavenly home, built by God for her.

Detailed explanation-4: -As a Puritan she struggled to subdue her attachment to the world, but as a woman she sometimes felt more strongly connected to her husband, children, and community than to God.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anne Bradstreet was raised in a strict Puritan home, and the contexts of many of her poems are clearly influenced by her Puritanism. Many scholars, such as Ann Stanford and Elizabeth Wade White, have noted the strong impact that Puritanism had on Bradstreet’s writing.