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Anne Bradstreet Loss

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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 …show more content…

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

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Even though everything she own was gone, she still has god by her side and blest his name. The feelings in both of the stories are very depressing and frightening. In Bradstreet’s, when you’re reading it, it sounds like the main person was very scared and didn’t know what was happening. After running out she blest god for saving her.

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Therefore this makes people feel guilty about making God angry, so they start to believe in God. In conclusion, Bradstreet and Edwards both had a strong belief in God, but they had separate ways of interpreting faith. Bradstreet and Edwards both used many literary devices to express their faith through their writing. Bradstreet used allusion throughout her whole poem. In line 36 of Upon the Burning of Our House, she alludes to Ecclesiastes 1:2 in the Bible by saying, “Adieu, Adieu, all’s vanity” (Bradstreet 36).

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“Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” by Anne Bradstreet and “To the University of Cambridge, in New England” by Phillis Wheatley The 17th century was a bustling time for poetry and the era of Romanticism. Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley were the first women poets to publish their poetry; “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” and “To the University of Cambridge, in New England”. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem; “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”, Anne writes about her experience in the middle of night, when she is awaken by a fire in her house.

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Both Bradstreet and Edwards are puritan writers, they are both believe in a higher more powerful God. In their writings “Upon the Burning of Our House”, by Anne Bradstreet and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards they both talk about the higher being of God. They both are powerful writers and have a way of getting their points across, but they do it differently. They are both great writers and even though they have different religious views and different writing styles both of their poems, “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, have the same goal of converting people.

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Theses writings were for personal use and despite their wishes were eventually published. Because of this, their writings showed true emotion and not that for entertainment or religious persuasion. Once released to the public their experiences were valued and passed on for generations to come. There was many simulates in the works of Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson’s describing signs from God to appreciate the nature, family and most importunely to put God first. Because of these signs and resulting tragedies, Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson had a very positive outlook on life and inspired many to follow and appreciate the simple things in life.

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