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Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem when her house burned down in 1666. The speaker of the poem is her, and in the title, "Upon the Burning of Our House" she tells you that the poem is about what she thought when her home burned down. She woke up from sleep to "piteous shrieks of dreadful voice" and that "fearful sound of fire." She took comfort or succor in her belief in God. She watched it burn but gave thanks to God anyway. "And when I could no longer look, I blest his Name that gave and took." She goes on to say that taking her home was "just" or fair, because God made it and it never really belonged to her in the first place. THen she goes on to think on the different events that took place in her home and different things her family had in it which were burnt up. But she says that all of your stuff, your possessions are worth nothing because one day (when you die) you will live in heaven in a home made by "that mighty Architect" or God. So the whole poem tells you that she was fortunate because she had a nice house and things, but that she is very religious and cares much more about going to Heaven and being with God than about her home and possessions. She even ends the poem with,
<em>The world no longer let me love,
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<em>My hope and treasure lies above.</em>
The meter and rhyme scheme are in iambic pentameter, which is what Shakespeare wrote his plays in and I feel it tells you that the writer is traditional, the rhyme scheme had already been around for a long time. So she is traditional and also well educated. She wouldn't know about iambic pentameter if she was not educated.
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