Why+Poets+Write

Not many poems were produced during the 16th century. If any were produced they were mainly sermons and bits on religion. This is a result of a strong puritan lifestyle. Some daring artists who were willing to do away with the constraits of their religions wrote poems of romance and love, which was forbidden by the Congregational Church. While some like Anne Bradstreet willing expressed their poems, others wouldnt dare to share their poems aloud. Their reasons are justified for those who disobeyed the church were punished....thoroughly.