American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0315 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Upon the Burning of Our House"
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The idea
After her home burned in sixteen sixty-six Bradstreet wrote verses walking through the loss room by room, naming the trunk, the chest, the table where guests had sat. She then corrects herself, calling the goods mere dust and turning to a house on high erected by the mighty architect.
In practice
The inventory, then the correction.
Where people slip
The correction is doctrine; the inventory is grief.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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