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Phillips wrote to cope with her emotions just as Mary Shelly however, instead of fictional stories she wrote poetry which was exclusively praised among a private community of writers she belonged to. Also like Shelly, Phillips only had one child survive past infancy. She wrote a poem, On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips, Borne the 23rd of April, and Died the 2nd of May, to describe her emotions on the death of her first child. She wrote in lines five and six, “I did but see him and he disappeared, I did but touch the rosebud, and it fell.” This provides beautiful imagery of how a precious, fragile rosebud fell just as her precious and fragile child passed away. She finished her poem with, “The last of thy unhappy mother’s verse.” In contrast to the imagery Phillip used before, she finished off her poem with a very straightforward verse that tells the reader of her