LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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she is being punished for being her vanity
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material objects are God’s, not hers
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she secretly wants all her possessions to vanish
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God will be happy with her if she blesses Him
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Detailed explanation-1: -Her possessions really belonged to God the whole time, and the speaker thus tells herself to “raise up [her] thoughts above the sky”-to let go of material attachments to the earthly realm and consider the heavenly.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this poem, Bradstreet describes intimate aspects of her relationship with her husband, which was unusual for a Puritan wife. She states, “My chilled limbs now numbed lie forlorn.” This describes how lonely she is without her husband.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the poem “Upon the Burning of Our House, ” the speaker states, “He might of all justly bereft, / But yet sufficient for us left” (Lines 19-20). This would be paraphrased as God has left us without, but what we have left is sufficient enough. Their possessions belong to God; he has the entitlement to take them away.