The_Author_To_Her_Book

The Author To Her Book In “The Author to Her Book,” Anne Bradstreet explains how she felt when her poems were published without her knowledge and consent. She explains these feelings of resentment, humiliation, pride, affection, and commitment with the use of many poetic devices. She frequently experiences an internal struggle. Bradstreet uses extended metaphor throughout the poem to express her unhappiness with the publishing of her poems. The use of this metaphor helps us to relate emotionally to her. Line one shows how Bradstreet views her own creation as her own child. She uses apostrophe and personification to express to us how her works were taken away and published without her perfecting them first. In the line “At thy return my blushing was not small,” Bradstreet declares her embarrassment. She then uses another metaphor in line eight to express again her pain “My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.” Her words seem to be harsh, but they are written with good cause. Bradstreet is trying to show more clearly her pain, relating her feelings of embarrassment to the embarrassment a parent of a misbehaving child may feel. This poem is written in iambic pentameter and the rhyme pattern is heroic bradstreet, line, child, feelings, poems, poem, relationship, own, mother, metaphor, express, explains, embarrassment, book, written, works, without, turn, thy, throughout, through, stress, speaks, show, publishing, published, poetic, personification, pentameter, pain, just, iambic, felt, eight, consonance