Bradstreet differed from other Puritan women because she was a published author and by that time, only men were the writers who published their works.
In fact, Ann Bradstreet was known as the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. Bradstreet is the first Puritan female figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry.
It represented freedom because they were free to do whatever they wanted. However, it was dark because they were always drunk. Dionysus inspired these because he caused them. The forest represents freedom.