Summary Of Bradstreet's Poem 'The Author To Her Book'
Alexia Blair
English
August 29, 2013
Reading Response
Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” looks at the author’s humiliation at having her work published and exposed to the critical public. Bradstreet uses a child as a metaphor for her book. This explains when she is embarrassed when it is snatched from her and reflects on her as the mother. Regardless of the author’s attachment to her “child,” she is still ashamed to send it out the door. Almost all the lines of the poem rhyme, this sort of speeds up the pace of poem. The poem also has a steady meter. The steady meter sort of matches the tone of the poem which, I thought, was a warning tone kind of. The speaker’s feelings of resentment and embarrassment are conflicted by her
English
August 29, 2013
Reading Response
Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book” looks at the author’s humiliation at having her work published and exposed to the critical public. Bradstreet uses a child as a metaphor for her book. This explains when she is embarrassed when it is snatched from her and reflects on her as the mother. Regardless of the author’s attachment to her “child,” she is still ashamed to send it out the door. Almost all the lines of the poem rhyme, this sort of speeds up the pace of poem. The poem also has a steady meter. The steady meter sort of matches the tone of the poem which, I thought, was a warning tone kind of. The speaker’s feelings of resentment and embarrassment are conflicted by her