Anne Bradstreet Beliefs

The poems of Anne Bradstreet displays her contradicting views toward the Puritan stereotypes, she is a feisty, feminist-like, and intelligent female writer who has intense love for her husband and family, “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold”. Even though she does not follow the norms of being a woman in the Puritan society, she still had some Puritan beliefs. Bradstreet mentions things related to women numerous times in her poems. Bradstreet wanted to show that she is a woman who contradicts the stereotypes and ideas of women during the Puritan era. Women were seen as inferior to men, because they were to care for the family, cook, clean, and such. A quote in The Prologue, “I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong. …show more content…
A stereotype of a Puritan is to be boring. Bradstreet defies this by showing sarcasm and irony in her poem The Prologue, by writing "for my mean pen are too superior things" which contradicts that she is too lady-like to write about ‘manly’ things. "Who says my hand a needle better fits" is another example sarcasm because of the Puritan thought of women being inferior and how they should be knitting, which Bradstreet does not do. Bradstreet contradicts sexlessness by writing about her endless love for her husband. In To My Dear and Loving Husband, Bradstreet writes more about her love for her husband by writing "Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold, I