Upon the the Burning of Our House

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Upon the Burning of Our House In the poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House,” Anne Bradstreet demonstrate a gloomy yet appreciative attitude towards gods, spiritual of the possessions. S: Subject: The woman has her house burned down P: Purpose: Your possessions in the human world is meaningless, that only things that worth meaning is the heaven, eternity. O: Occasion: Anna Bradstreet were mourning over her house got burned down. She then begins to feel the remorseful and realize that Puritan, her religion belief that the possessions you own does not belong to you but God’s. T: Title: The title describe the women with her riches house got burned down T: Tone: Anne Bradstreet poem, “Upon the Burning of Our House” is resentful and remorseful. She was being resentful that her house got burned and down and that all her possessions are turned into ashes. But throught that sorrow, she is remorseful because since she’s a Puritan and believe that none of the things did not actually belongs to her but to God’s. Therefore, material possessions are easy to get and gain but also easy to lose and destroyed. T: Theme: That you should not centered on what you have because you will eventually lose it when you die, and only God is with you. S: Speaker: The point of view in this poem is first person, the reader can assume that the speaker is the author because the poem describe her as the person who lose her possessions and uses I, and me. Therefore, Anne Bradstreet is the speaker. Paragraph: In her poem, “ Upon the Burning of Our House”, Anne Bradstreet uses metaphor depict the God is the architect, that he gave her houses, things that she need. She also uses symbolism to describe that her house got burned down which represents the God’s will and she accepting the God’s will in any case, whether it’s good or bad. And that She still reminisce the possessions of hers in
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