The extended metaphor in “The Author to Her Book,” is like her child. Bradstreet refers to “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain” (line1). Bradstreet is embarrassed by the birth of her first book, because she lacks confidence in her work. She show her lack of confidence by writing “My rambling brat (in print) should mother call”(line 8); Nevertheless, she does try improving her work when she says, “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw”(line 13), meaning she’s made corrections to one area, but there are error in other areas of her work. Throughout the work, Bradstreet refers to her child by writing, “I cast thee by as one unfit for the light” (line 9). Bradstreet’s perception of the book as a child is to create the tone of amusement,
