I need to know what this poem is and what I’m suposed to do with an example. Its by Anne Bradstreet for school

I don’t think that anyone actually wants to just do your homework FOR you.

Post a better question that shows that you read the poem and that you are asking something about it.

Well, I’m not particularly well-versed in Anne Bradstreet poetry other than knowing that she was a Puritan and wrote about the deaths of children because she struggled with the Puritan idea of infant damnation and views of earthly life vs. heavenly life; It wouldn’t be very ethical to have someone else to do your homework; however, I do know a little about poetry analysis and perhaps this may help you make some progress on this assignment.

As for a poetry chart–that’s kind of vague. Could you email or call your teacher to see if there was a handout you may have missed or some instructions you may have missed? Poetry analysis can be done in different ways in varying levels of complexity, so the information I’m about to provide could be more or less of what she wants or completely off the mark of how you’re supposed to demonstrate your learning.

You could try TPCASTT. It’s a Pre-AP/AP (Advanced Placement) strategy. I suppose you could make this as a linear (line-like) chart going from top to bottom, but as long as you keep the TPCASTT elements in order you may be able to come up with a more creative way to make a chart in a different shape (a circle, the shape of a house, a bolt of lightning, a lit candlestick, etc.) . Be sure you refer to specific line numbers/phrases when you complete this analysis (make line numbers for yourself on the poem if you have to).

Title – The meaning of the title

Paraphrase – Line by line put the poem into your own words. Do NOT try to interpret symbols, “deeper meanings” etc. at this time. Simply put, what is happening in each line?

Connotation – Look for deeper meaning this time –things like symbols, metaphors, similes, imagery, rhymes (end/internal), sound devices like onomatopoeia/alliteration, allusions (hint–who is the “mighty Architect” in reference to?), etc.

Attitude – What is Bradstreet’s attitude about the burning of the house/her subject (look at her words/word choices)?

Shifts – Are there any shifts (changes) in her attitude, her tone, the action of the poem, etc.

Title – look at the title again. Re-evaluate it for possible new meaning or new connections.

Theme – What does the poem mean? What is it saying? How does it relate to life? hint: What is Bradstreet saying about her “earthly” home?

I can break the poem down for you, but I’ve never heard of a Poetry Chart.

This is the summary, this answer’s interpretation, of “The Burning of Our House”:

Asleep, she didn’t look for sorrow. She awoke to the thundering noise and the shreiks of a dreadful voice. Her house was on fire. She blessed God, although her house had been taken from her. It was his, not hers.

In the next stanzas, she’s recalling the plesant memories of what shes lost.

In the stanzas beginning, “Then streight I gin my heart to chide….,” the poet chastizes herself for her selfishness. She’s praising God in the next stanzas for an assurance of a heavenly home. She needs no money or stored treasures—for she has everything she will need in heaven.

The poem is basically about Anne losing everything that she had in a fire. Usually when people lose things of sentimental value, they in turn learn to appreciate the more important things in life. At the beginning when she sees everything in ashes she prays to God and thanks him for everything that he had given her, realizing that God is the one who owned all the things that she possessed. At the end, she is happy that God had given her all of his things to share with her. Anne realizes that although she had tables in her kitchen and beds in her room, God is the “Almighty Architect” who makes everything.

ask your teacher for help…i’ve already done my homework!!