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Anne BradstreetExplicationThe author to her book.

Explication – Anne Bradstreet
“The Author to her Book”

The overall explanation the poem” The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet is that “ her poem is a rambling brat.“ Anne Bradstreet’s poem was never meant to be published. Examples of other metaphors are:” ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain “ these were words that she came up with in her mind. “ Who afterbirth didst by my side remain,” means the poem stayed in rough draft form with her and had no intention of bring published. “ Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true who thee abroad exposed to public view”- Her poem was taken by well meaning friends and published with out her permission and with out a chance for revision. “ Made the...

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