"The author to her book" by Anne Bradstreet gently uses the metaphor of motherhood to describe her relationship between her and her books. She utilizes this complex attitude to portray her perception toward her audience. She begins her poem by describing the books as her "ill-form'd offspring of her feeble brain". By establishing her written works as the child of her brain, She cared and nurtured her books until she was ripped suddenly of them by her friends. "less wise than true.....expos'd to publick view.", the book lied bare and naked to the public eye. This intimidated Anne because she felt as if her works were not perfected but the books still released in what she describes as "in rags" As much as she tried perfecting her books more
