LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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her belief that rewards are in Heaven.
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her anger toward God.
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Her family and friends.
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she does not have the strength to deal with what happened.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Where does Bradstreet get her inner strength to face the loss of her house? How do you think someone today might deal with the same situation? She draws her inner strength from her “faith in God.” Bradstreet speaks of another “house” in an extended metaphor at the end of the poem.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Why does Bradstreet chide her heart? She was not focusing on God. She missed events that occurred in the house. She had longing for earthly materials she had lost.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the end of her poem, Bradstreet speaks about their death and hopes even after dying their love for each other will still exist. There is a strong division between her husband and God as marriage ends at death.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.