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Describe the traditions of the Puritan life that Anne Bradstreet challenged with her love poem

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She contradicts puritan belief because her main topic in her poems was the love she felt for her husband as an equal exchange of desire and devotion that results in a marital balance; And this is against puritan because the topic of romantic love was forbidden in puritan conversations. Furthermore, puritan women were limited to the responsibilities of a housewife. Women were bound to speak at home and never in public. What is more, for puritans, faithfulness was manifested by worshiping God. So, the comparison between Anne BradstreetĀ“s love towards her husband and the love towards God, seems to show marital love as a mirror of the love between God and humans, contradicting, then, the puritan belief.

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