The two poems are most often studied separately as unrelated works because of their differences in style, tone and stated purpose. However, as a preface, some say that "The Dreame" cannot help but influence the reader's interpretation of "Mortalities Memorandum". Because Speght believed, as a Calvinist, that one's god-given talent must be used for the benefit of the common good, Speght believed writing to be her true Christian vocation. Drawing the themes of the devastating and damning cessation of her true vocation together with a meditation on death perhaps reflects that Speght viewed life as a "prison which denies women the liberating salvation of education for their minds and their souls" (Vecchi, 3).