Anne Bradstreet’s Expression of Anger During the Puritain era, poets wrote their literature in a very religious sense. Almost all of the Puritain writers based their literature on God. Anne Bradstreet, however, bases her poetry not on God, but on her thoughts and feelings on the events of her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poem An Author to Her Book explains Bradstreet’s anger towards her brother-in- law for publishingher personal poetry without her permission. In this poem Bradstreet uses a combination of a metaphore, a paradox, and other literary devices to express her anger. Brad