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Compare And Contrast Upon The Burning Of Our House And The Raven

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The poems of Anne Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of our House” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” have a style that deals with loss and grief in different ways. Each poem tells what they have lost. Bradstreet loses all of her possessions in a fire. As her house burns she calls out to God for strength. She grieves her earthly home but realizes that her heavenly home is so much greater. She makes that clear when she says “Far be it that I should repine” (18). I think she stays positive because her belief in God is so great. Bradstreet believed that “the world no longer let me love, my home and treasure lies above” (53-54). Poe lost Lenore who was the love of his life. He feels sorrow and turns inward to deal with his grief. I think when the Raven
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