Anne Bradstreet: Poems

upon the burning of our house

describe the function of repeated words such as "here" and "there" in this poem.

 

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There is a detachment meant to couch the words "here" and "there". At the same time there is a sense of lost permanence, which is a subtext. Both reflect the narrator's conflict over mourning her destroyed house and accepting God's fate for her. 

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