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She does an excellent job of expressing her feelings and emotions through this poem by writing directly and personally to the audience. In the poem, she expresses her fear of other people’s opinions. She expresses it by stating, “Where errors were not lessened (all may judg),” to openly express her fear of critiquing her work, through this she tells the audience directly how she feels, not giving any clues, or literacy devices. As well as, expressing herself as a perfectionist. Even when she exclaims, “I’d Wash’d thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.” By stating this, she expresses her concern over the writing that she wrote. Bradstreet communicates her feelings and thoughts so vividly to convey her experience,

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