JE04 Puritan Poetry

          In the poem, “Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house, July 10^th, 1666”, Anne Bradstreet shows a style strongly influenced by the Bible and God. They believed that they were born as sinners and had to work hard to pay back. Their writings were plain, without the use of complicated figure of speech. The Puritan writings reflect their life that they like to keep things simple, without any luxury or enjoyment.  They also didn't believe in eternal possessions because since God gave them everything, He can take everything away too.

           

            A rationalist or deist would believe that they have the control of their lives under the rules of universe that God created. They believe people are born with good souls and the best way of worshiping God is making people happy. If their house got burned down, they probably would complain and described it as an unfortunate experience in life. Furthermore, they might reason what caused their house got burned down. They probably would also be upset about the lost possessions since they earned everything by themselves.  

           If one day my house was burned down and I lost all of my important possessions, I would be upset at the very first place. My belief is more likely to be like the Rationalism. I would choose to think that no one purposely made this happen, and what was lost was lost so it is meaningless to think about it repeatedly. It is not a hard thing to earn everything back and start a new life again.