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Does Anne Bradstreet’s poetry reflect Puritan thinking?

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Yes, it does, and quite to a large extent. For example, in her poem "Before the Birth of One of Her Children", she believes that God will grant her husband with a new wife if she dies which shows how much Puritan women believed in marriage and how God provided them with this gift. Her works talk a lot about the Puritan society, lifestyle, and the position that women had in such a society, as well as religion.
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