How does Bradstreet’s poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” explore the aftermath of a house fire? What do the turning points tell you about the speaker’s process? What are the implications of this traumatic event for the speaker–and maybe for readers of the poem as well?
2 ½ – 3 pages, double spaced This is the poem by Phillis Wheatley Analyze how a poem draws on a turning point to encode implicit ideas, claims, or worldviews. What ideas, claims or worldview emerge in the poem before the turning point(s)? How does the poem shift after the turning point(s)? What is the […]