Journal Entry 4: Puritan Poetry

After reading the poem for the fourth time, i still had the same impression that i saw last time. Anne believe that humans are here in earth to suffer, well that's what i felt. The suffering of mankind is a test to see if you can handle the entertianments luking all around you. To the puritans, pleasure in life is like sin, you shall not be into pleasure or you will go to hell. In the poem of Anne, she was unafraid (or that she didn't describe) the hardships that lies infront of her for rebuilding her home. It seems to me as if she might even be happy about the fact that she lost all her belongings, in relating to the philosophical ideas of the Puritans. Since the puritans view all leisures as the sins of men and only God's grace can save us. As it spins around the belief that you have to "feel" God's grace, possibly Anne can even view the loss of all her things as God's grace. God burned down all her goods, as a token for her well being of a women, away from leisures in life. Having her goods all burnt away, Anne might even think that the fire was the Grace of God and be happy about her life. If this was done to me, boy i would be mad. However, with the deists and the rationalists, they won't even bother to think about the grace of God. Definitely no poems will be written, the place would be like a CSI crime case. They will be identifiing the evidence of the burnt site and who might have done it. They believe in the fact that Goed would not interfere in their lives, then there would be no reason for God to take away their stuff, it would contradictory to the purpose of making this world. My poem would be about sorrow at first, but then view it as a adventure. Well, actually it depends on the time, if it was modern times, i would be pissed, and then call agents or insurances. If  it was at that time, i will have to build my little fire with skills i learnt from books, build my quick little house with trees, find a cave to hide from the cold. It would paleolithic era again.