Puritanism and Anne Bradstreets Poems
Anne Bradstreet's writing greatly reflects Puritan beliefs in the sense that she makes the connection that everything is God's will. The blessings she is graced with and the misfortune that happens to her is all the will of God. In her poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," she focuses mainly on how she has been blessed with love and her husband, and this can be seen as a blessing from God as a type of "personal salvation." In her other poem "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666," she talks of God taking away all of her belongings, this can be seen as struggling to overcome their own sinful nature as well as personal salvation. In "To My Dear and Loving Husband," Bradstreet says much about how she is blessed to have he
These reflected the beliefs that one had to go through struggle in order to overcome the evil that lies within him and also the belief that God chose certain people to be saved and to go into heaven. She ends with the statement "That when we live no more, we may live ever" thus saying that when they are no longer alive, their love will still live on and they will live on together in eternity. She only talks of her house being gone, her possessions never to be enjoyed again, and her sorrow is expressed in her telling of the memories she had living in the house. This belief could be based on the fact that if a person has a good life with many fortune and blessings, they have been "saved" and will go to heaven. Because it is based on the God's will, Bradstreet might have felt that because God blessed her with a husband and these things that make her life so much more worth living, he has chosen her and her husband to be saved to go to heaven. This is the view that she is being punished by God and also a struggle to overcome sinful nature. Her husband, was a blessing given to her by God, and her house burning down was a punishment from God. If a person has many misfortune in their life and any bad things happen to them, they will not go to heaven. This is based on the Puritan belief of personal salvation. Anne Bradstreet wrote mainly of how God was connected to every aspect of her life. Perhaps they believed that they did something that was against the religion, and as punishment, their house was burned down. But, this message that she felt she was receiving changed dramatically when she wrote her next poem. In "Upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666," Bradstreet talks of how God took away her home and every material thing that she owned.
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