LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Herself
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God
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Their home’s builder
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The Fire
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ‘Mighty Architect’ aforementioned, in its metaphorical nature, links and compares God to an ordinary Architect.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Bradstreet almost always either puts heavy emphasis on the role of God and religion, or else she ignores it completely in her domestic poems. This inclusion or exclusion of religion can also be seen as her struggle for order as she tried to determine the limits of her own voice in her new community.