Anne Bradstreet was a woman full of love for her family, and for God. Her style of writing is cavalier, and though she writes about different topics, she often mentions God, Heaven, and offers thanks to Him. Even when disastrous things happened to her, she still declared God just and merciful, which is a very admirable display of faith, or it could be seen as incredible ignorance, because why would a loving God allow awful things to happen to her? Nevertheless, she attributes God as good, and has a surprisingly optimistic attitude despite everything she suffers through, like her house burning down, the death of her two grandchildren, and her own possible death every time she gives birth. I think it’s interesting how Bradstreet keeps such a positive, hopeful attitude, even though it probably would have been much easier for her to blame God for all of her problems and become bitter and angry, she has faith in Him, despite everything. …show more content…
His poems are written in a way that makes it harder to understand than Bradstreet’s poems. Taylor can take something, that doesn’t seem related to God at all, and make you realize how it symbolizes God’s grace, like in “Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold”. You wouldn’t normally expect a cold wasp to be used as a symbol for Christians who need help, but that’s exactly what Taylor did. In the poem, the wasp represents a suffering Christian, but once she (the wasp) feels the sunlight warm her, she reverently thanks God, (well, I assume she’s thanking God) and flies away. The moral in this poem, is that if you are suffering, like the cold wasp, God will bathe you in the warmth of the sun, even when it seems like the sun will never rise