Summary Of The Author To Her Book By Anne Bradstreet

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The Author to her Book by Anne Bradstreet develops a complex story about a writer and her emotions towards a piece of work. The controlling metaphor Bradstreet analyzes in the poem is the relationship between an author and her book and that of a parent and a child. She does so in order to correlate the emotions that go along with either relationship: the love, the disappointment and the embarrassment. The metaphor not only depicts the emotions of the relationship but also the internal struggle of the speaker as he/she is completing their work. Anne Bradstreet uses the relationship of the mother and child to convey the mixed and complicated feelings of the speaker toward the book he/she is writing and sending the book out to the public. The speaker does not believe her book is good enough for the world to read. Anne Bradstreet says, “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain” (Bradstreet, line 1) to show that he/she blames herself that the book was so horrible, he/she believes that they are weak minded and this piece of literature is filth. Bradstreet then goes to write, “Who after birth didst by my side remain” (line 2). The narrator tried to hide the hideous monstrosity, her book, in order to not experience the disappointment he/she believes will come from releasing the book into the public. A mother …show more content…
He/she tried to correct the errors of the book or wash the dirt off the book but when he/she did so it just kept reappearing. So then the speaker tried to “stretch the joints”, meaning he/she tried to make the book more cohesive but again it didn’t work. However, the speaker still didn’t give up. Bradstreet writes, “in better dress to trim thee was my mind.” He/she tried to make the book look better to the public eye, similar to a mother dressing up her child to go out. Overall though, while the speaker tried to change the book for the better, all he/she did was create more
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