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Upon The Burning Of Our House By Anne Bradstreet
“Upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666”, a poem by Anne Bradstreet. This poem describes her reaction of waking up, running around the house, and a fearful sound of “Fire!” and “Fire!”, because her house was broken down. She struggles a lot with her materialism. But after all, she wasn’t discouraged and she didn’t lose hope even in the helpless situation because, Christ is the one who said “Fear not for I am with thee”. She woke up by hearing the sound of loud noises, and screaming on fire. And heartily, she wished that no one may have this situation in their life because she states “Let no man know is my desire,” (Line 6). At this fearful and tragic time, she put God first and asked for his help to calm her down and to give her strength.
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