Review Of Anne Bradstreet's Poem 'The Author To Her Book'

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The poem that I will be explicating is, “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet. In this poem the poet compares her books to that of a precious child. A short summary of this poem would be: the poet had a book idea that she thought was “ill-formed”, her friends took it from her and “exposed [it] to public view” before she could fix her errors. Although she tried to fix the errors of her book she only saw more, but she realizes that maybe she can’t really fix the problems in her work by saying, “Thy blemishes amend, if so I could.” She’s acknowledging that no matter how much she tries to fix her errors, it won’t get any better. The poem is a metaphor; she’s saying that her books are like her “child” and she feels the same way about her books

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