The Author to her Poem

In the poem “The Author to Her Book,” Anne Bradstreet’s use of metaphor to compare a book to a child demonstrates the complex and multipart attitude of the speaker. She, as a writer compared to a mother, feels both compassion and love for the work, because, like a child, it is her own, but she also feels ashamed of it, knowing its flaws and errors.
The lengthy first stanza of “The Author to Her Book” describes in detail the complex relationship between the author and her book, as c...