Anne Bradstreet Loss

Dealing with a loss can make you question many things in your life. It makes you question how you deal with the deprivation. Anne Bradstreet showed her struggle with loss through her poetry. In the poems, “Upon the Burning of Our House”, and, “Oh My Dear Grand Child Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November 1669 Being but a Month and One Day Old” you can really see her question her religion because of her loss. Anne Bradstreet puts her struggles with religion into her poetry by using sarcasm and subtle hints of rebellion. Bradstreet went through many struggles by being a female writer and a Puritan. In the poem “Upon the Burning...” she uses sarcasm to display her struggle with her religion. She says, “Far be it that I should repine”. Within this quote, she uses subtle sarcasm to show that she is starting to question her religion. By using the hyperbole, “Far be it...”, it implies that Bradstreet is being sarcastic and believes she has a right to grief over her devastation. She does not think that all is just because it is God's will, she believes she is right to be angry and upset about her

She wrote a poem about one named Simon Bradstreet. In the poem “Oh My Dear Grandchild…” she again rebels against her religion because of a loss. She says “Let’s say He is humble and just”. She again uses sarcasm to tell that she is losing her faith. The wording that she uses makes it seem and sound like she does not believe the words that she is saying. Again she feels like she is right to be mad at God for the loss of her grandchild. Within the same poem, she says “Cropped by the Almighty’s Hand”. The words that she used gave the sentence and negative connotation. The word cropped makes it sound sudden and heartless like God did it to be mean. Her attitude towards God and her religion is anger. She seems to be angry at God and her religion for the losses that she has