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Tag: Upon the Burning of Our House

Upon the Burning of Our House – Analysis

Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 by JL Admin

Bradstreet’s ‘‘Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666’’ swings like a pendulum between Bradstreet’s Puritan beliefs and her deep emotional turmoil regarding the loss of her home. While it is tempting to try to assess whether or not Bradstreet’s sorrow is successfully mitigated or addressed by her faith, such an exercise would not…

Upon the Burning of Our House – Tone – Rhyme Scheme – Literary Devices

Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 by JL Admin

Lyric Poetry  ‘‘Upon the Burning of Our House’’ is considered a lyric poem. A lyric poem is one in which the poet explores personal feelings and thoughts rather than telling a story. Typically short in length, lyric poems do not necessarily adhere to any formal structure. Modern lyric poems may be written in unmetered, unrhymed…

Upon the Burning of Our House: Themes

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by JL Admin

Loss  Bradstreet’s ‘‘Upon the Burning of Our House’’ is concerned primarily with the poet’s great sense of loss, along with her attempt to mediate this pain through her faith in God. Throughout the middle third of the poem, Bradstreet offers an emotional itemization of her material losses and suggests the psychological toll such losses have…

Upon the Burning of Our House: Summary

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by JL Admin

Lines 1–6  Bradstreet’s ‘‘Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666’’ is not formally broken into stanzas. (A stanza is a unit of poetry, or a grouping of lines that divides the poem in the same way that a paragraph divides prose. Bradstreet’s poem appears on the page as a fifty-four-line poem without any…

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