s is very descriptive and vivid. In second stanza, Bacagives a vivid description of the busy scene, describing the crowd of neighbors and firementhat had gathered around "the charred husk of our(Baca's) house". Through the wholemess, Baca is struck with the reality that in his blazing home, were ten years worth ofpoems up in flames. Baca's vulnerability is shown later in the poem once all the peoplehave left and its just him with his burned home. He provides great imagery of the black,charred rooms in his haunting house "brooding in its own black rebellion". Unlike Baca,Bradstreet isn't as materialistic about the objects that she lost in her home. Throughout thepoem, she writes of all the things that she will no longer have that went up in flames, buttowards the end of the poem, she prevents her "heart to chide(break)". She feels that theonly home she needs is the "house on high erect", which is built by a person she calls the"mighty Architect". Here, she visualizes heaven as the only home she needs, and that ifshe keeps her faith and composure, she will one day be able to reach the "Treasure" that"lyes above". Baca focus more on the burning of his home for his source of imagery, whileBradstreet is more concerned with providing images of God, the man who will help her inher time of need.The use of diction and the form of each poem is very different in both poems. Byreading Baca's poem it is very obvious that his poem is much more modern thanBradstreet's. His reference to a "fire-engine", and "crackling walkie-talkies" is clearevidence that Baca wrote his poem in a modern era. Also, the structure of his poemdoesn't follow a rhyme-scheme and doesn't have a certain amount of lines per stanza, onceagain showing Baca's contemporary style. On the other hand, Bradstreet's "archaic"language and her rigid structure show that she wrote her poem in a much earlier era.Using words like "lye", or "thee", she gives the poem that archaic look. Also, u...
