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The Author To Her Book Metaphor
In the poem, “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet, Bradstreet uses metaphor to compare herself to her “offspring”, the spitting image of herself. Her “offspring” is not that of an actual baby, but a book born from the flaws of herself and her mind. With this comparison she explains her harsh love for her “newborn” by stating all its flaws, and describing how she tries to mask her own flaws by masking the flaws described in her “offspring.” “Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth did’st by my side remain…” (Lines 1-2), the first line presents the book as an infant being born. Just as a baby is the creation of someone, the book is a creation of her mind and just as a baby is the reflection of its creator, the book
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