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Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet

Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet. Feature Menu. Introducing the Poem Literary Focus: The Plain Style Reading Skills: Analyzing Text Structures: Inversion.

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Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet

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  1. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666by Anne Bradstreet Feature Menu Introducing the Poem Literary Focus: The Plain Style Reading Skills: Analyzing Text Structures: Inversion

  2. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet

  3. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. —Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)

  4. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet In this poem, the speaker awakens to shouts of “Fire!” • She escapes from her burning house and then watches the flames consume it. • The shock of losing her house causes her to reflect on what truly matters to her. [End of Section]

  5. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 Literary Focus: The Plain Style Puritan writers favored the plain style—a way of writing that stresses • simplicity • clarity of expression • the use of everyday words Puritan writings may now seem hard to read, but to readers in the 1600s, they sounded simple and direct.

  6. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 Literary Focus: The Plain Style Although Bradstreet uses figurative language in her poetry, her writing is still influenced by strong, simple Puritan style and diction. “Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, There lay that store I counted best.” [End of Section]

  7. Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 Reading Skills: Analyzing Text Structures: Inversion Inversion is the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. • Poets often use inversion to accommodate the demands of meter and rhyme. My pleasant things lie in ashes, And I shall behold them no more. Normal order Inversion “My pleasant things in ashes lie, And them behold no more shall I.” [End of Section]

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