LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Bradstreet is angry at God for taking away her house.
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Bradstreet is sad that some of her possessions are gone.
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Bradstreet realizes that she cannot put her trust in earthly things.
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Bradstreet understands that she has a permanent, heavenly home.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Major Themes in “Verses upon the Burning of our House”: Faith and acceptance are the major themes of this poem. The poem narrates a tragic incident that destroyed her home. It represents the internal struggle of the speaker whose earthly house turned into ashes.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Faith, Suffering, and Acceptance. The Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet wrote “Verses upon the Burning of our House” in response to the destruction of her home and possessions by a fire.
Detailed explanation-4: -And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice. That fearfull sound of fire and fire, Let no man know is my Desire.