"The Author To Her Book", by Anne Bradstreet is a poem directed towards her previously written book. The whole poem is an extended metaphor as it is writing about writing. The book is personified as her child and thus there is simple rhyme and rhythm. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, and in rhyming couplets. The whole piece has only three sentences, yet it is not short, and consists of many commas. The commas …
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…proud of who she is, especially of being a woman, she sent the book to get published, to get money, and she isn't ashamed because she isn't ordinary, she has something honest to show to the world, which makes her and her work even more special. It ends with an ironic reflection to the book not having a father; words of a woman in a mans world. A woman's discovery of herself, and her abilities.