Journal 4: Puritan Poetry

The major Puritan belief was that every earthly pleasure was only temporary and that the only meaning of life was to redeem ourselves of the Original Sin so there would be a place high up in heaven after we gloriously leave our place on Earth. The burning house poem expresses Puritan ideology with very typical attitude. It is a very contradicting idea because if they believe that everything that happened is related to God then they should believe that Jesus' death was to relief the Original Sin of all people. However, they still believe that everyone should live the world just to clear their Original Sin as if Jesus have died in vain. They didn't respect what Jesus did for them and went ahead and disregard what he did for them. A normal person's poem after their house has burnt to ashes and lost all their possession would probably not praise or be grateful of God for not taking their lives along with their possession. In my poem I would probably write mostly to condemn God and blame God for all the unfortunate events that happened in addition to the burning of my house. I would release all my anger to God because he is the only one I can blame instead of myself and I would not want to blame myself for anything after I have just lost everything to such traumatic cause.