"Upon the Burning of Our House"

"Upon the Burning of our House" was the poem by Anne Bradstreet that impressed me the most. The reason this poem is so compelling is Anne is conflicted between forgetting her old possessions due to her Puritan faith and becoming sorrowful due to her materialistic ways. She is in a state of melancholy at the beginning, but then wavers to forgetting her old possessions because it is sinful in the Puritan religion to care about Earthly objects. She then convinces herself of God's Grace and realizes that he giveths away and takeths away. By the end of the poem, Anne Bradstreet looks forward to her life in heaven but obviously will look back and will be saddened about her losses.