Puritans and Possessions

The Bradstreet’s poem talked about the writer’s house burning down. The puritans believed many things happened because the god made them happen, this religious belief caused the poem to be interesting. In the poem, she thinks it’s the gods will that the house is burning, instead of thinking it as natural causes. The writer paid respect to god for taking her possessions, instead of getting mad at her unfortunate encounters. She said the god had given her house, and now god is taking it away. She feels sorrow for the things she lost, but she thanked god for taking. If people in the modern society saw their house burn down, their reactions would be very different from the writer. Instead of feeling thankful, people would just be mad at the world and their unfortunates. The puritans believe that god can control everything, and people cannot control their faith. The writer in this poem believes god has done something right in taking all her possessions, and she thinks she has enough even if god’s taken her possessions.