ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -"Verses upon the Burning of our House” was written by the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet in response to the real-life destruction of her home in Andover, Massachusetts, which burned to the ground in 1666.

Detailed explanation-3: -And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice. That fearfull sound of fire and fire, Let no man know is my Desire.

Detailed explanation-4: -She wrote this poem around July of 1666 to describe the event of her home burning to the ground. Bradstreet creates a deeper meaning in her poem through her discussion of earthly value versus eternal value and how she discovers the importance of eternal value through the loss of her earthly possessions.