Anne Bradstreet's poetry is based how high she value's possessions. In her writings, Bradstreet expresses that materialistic possessions are not important to her. A poetry book, complementing Bradstreet and her ability to express herself, states "Despite her active domestic life and the hardships imposed by a new and strange environment, Anne Bradstreet still found time to express herself in verse" (The American Experience 21). Bradstreet expresses her feelings and devotion towards her husband, her children, her religion, and her feelings toward materialistic possessions.
             Anne Bradstreet wrote poems to express her devotion to her husband and children. Bradstreet states, in the poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," a poem written only for her husband: "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold," (line 5). She values her husband's love higher than gold. In Bradstreet's poem "In Reference to Her Children," She reveals her devotion towards her children when she states "I nursed them with pain and care" (line 3), meaning that she is devoted to her children enough to nurse them, a task that is painful and exhausting. Bradstreet reveals these personality characteristics using symbolism. Although Anne Bradstreet uses symbolism to express her devotion towards her husband and children, she doesn't use much when expressing her devotion towards her religion. She is frank when she states "And to my god my heart did cry" (line 8) in the poem "Upon the Burning of Our House," and reveals her devotion towards her God and religion. In this poem, Bradstreet speaks of God again when she uses the words "his name" in the line "I blest his name that gave and took" (line 14). To express her devotion to her religion, she also writes, in this same poem, "My hope and treasure lies above" (line 54). She is referring to heaven when she writes "above." In this line, Bradstreet implies that her possessions are insignificant, and that what is in heaven is p...