LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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I forgive Him for taking everything we had.
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He might have abandoned us and yet He stayed with us.
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He had the right to take everything and instead he left us enough.
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We deserved to lose everything we had and we lost hardly anything.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -While Bradstreet speaks on a variety of themes, such as loss, sorrow, and material wealth, the main focus of this poem is on God and religion. In the fifty-four lines of the pome Bradstreet details her emotional experience on the night that her home burned down and she lost all of her material possessions.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -lacking or deprived of something. He might of All justly bereft, sufficient. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement.