Anne Bradstreet's poetry epitomized the simplistic, rural, and God-centered way of life central to Puritanical beliefs. Part of these Puritan beliefs were the women's role in society. This role pertains not only to her relationship with her family, but also to the subservient part she must play to the male half of society. Her poetry was centered around the love for her God and family and a very sarcastic view on a woman's role in the Puritan society.
Anne Bradstreet incorporated the unconditional love for God and her upheld faith as the foundation of her poetry. She felt that without God she would not even have the words to put on paper. She held strong to her faith no matter what trials or tribulations life brought her way. In one of her meditations Bradstreet shows just that. "Corn, till it have past the mill and been ground to powder, is not fit for bread. …
