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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 Bradstreet´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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