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without her knowledge. Her later poems describe daiiy life

and her love of her family and home.

"Verses upon the Burning of Our House"

■    Genre - elegy - dealing with loss, popular genre produced by Puritans

■    Elegy on the loss of her husband

■    Opens with lamentation, ends with acceptance and consolation - fuli process of mourning

■    Opens with an outburst against faith and there are certain stages in order to achieve a sense of consolation

■    Relocate

■    Melancholy- unsuccessful mourning

•    Recollects events; names feeling and emotions (helps us to regain control)

■    Went back, remembers the sounds woken at night and she addresses God, she's not alone in her grief

■    Herself and her burning house

■    Uses specific type of diction

■    Knew that she had someone to help her

•    Almost formulaic acceptance of what happens - I have to take it

■    Admits belonging to God

■    God saved our life and we and we shouldn't complain

■    He took away the son, many goods but we have God, we survived

■    Describes experience as if forgetting about God

■    Numbers places, objects not woth her attitude to these objects - sentimental

■    Admits she often goes back to places and grieves about objects she lost

■    Consolation is artificial; allowes herself to anger at the forces, logs

■    Remembers pieces of furniture

■    Contemplation - no guest will visit me

■    Typical elegiac of "No morę should I"...

■    Anaphora (in elegies) - begin with the same phrase

■    Initial declaration to obedience