Anne Finch’s body of work covers personal themes and reveals social undertones at the same time. She began to seriously write during the testing times of her marriage with her husband and dedicated many of her poems to him. Much of her work is an extensive exploration of love.
Finch shows the intricate connection between verse and love. In A Letter to The Same Person, she fuses the two ideas of poetry and love. Her poetry is an extensive demonstration of the poetic conventions of her day, yet also addresses the hindrance they cause to expressing inner thoughts. This dichotomy is presented in To Mr F., now Earl of Winchilsea.
On a more ideological note, Finch was a devout Catholic and wrote an elegy for James II titled Upon the Death of King James the Second. Here, she demonstrated her acumen for social and political ideas .
