A Thematic Analysis Of 'The Author To Her Book'

In the author to her book Anne Bradstreet presents a poem that express how she felt when one of her poems was published .. The complete poem is an extended metaphor of an ugly child she created using the human characteristic of motherhood as part of the conceit.. Her choice of metaphor was influenced by her status as a women cause they didn't have access to advanced education as men for the reason of their gender. She uses the whole poem to deceive to people that her poetry isn't made for their view, that's why she says its “ ill form-d”:1 as an excuse that her poems are not perfect as the other ones who are meant to be published.. she expresses that her poetry is in ugly shape and is not qualified for people to read but in reality her

The essay The Writer's Responsibility by Margaret Atwood is written with the intent of urging the privileged writer to utilize their position to speak out for those who are unable to. Her intention is a noble one which I am in agreement with, however, in order for her to express this intent her tone is quite straightforward. It is this candid tone in combination with several generalizations which I have a gripe with. For example, on several occasions Atwood degrades her readers through grand generalizations such as when she says “on a whole the audience prefers art not to be a mirror held to life but a disneyland of the soul” (Atwood 1).

Mrs. Fletcher sees this gift as a blight on her body; the perception leading her to say “I don’t like children that much…I’m almost tempted not to have this one,” (). Welty points to vanity as the destroyer of beauty. The evil-mindedness of self-love breaks even the sacrosanct bond of motherhood.

In the poem, the speaker treats their work as if it were a baby, their very own child. From the first line of the poem: “Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain”, the speaker is comparing her productions to offspring. The speaker’s offspring however, derive from her mind. She describes her child as annoying and constantly pestering her, in addition, she refers to herself as the mother when she says : “My rambling brat (in print) should mother call”(line 8). However, the speaker acknowledges that as a mother, she must take care of her own offspring: “Yet being mine own, at length affection would,thy blemishes amend, if so I could”(line 11-12). The speaker acknowledges that she must care for her offspring or book that she is writing, but she cannot seem to complete her work with satisfaction which is a major theme of this particular

In the opening line of “The Author to Her Book”, Bradstreet makes use of a metaphor, in which the “ill-form offspring” (1) emblematizes her book, “The Tenth Muse”, and to create a mother-child relationship between her and the book. The child metaphor allows readers to know that she is not satisfied with her writing skills, but has a devotional bond with it. She points out that her book should never be read by a literature expert due to the wide amount of errors that can be found in her work “made in raggs” (5). She expresses she “wash´d thy face” (13), trying to improve her work, but fails to observe any changes in it and fails in the process. These serve as examples to expose how Puritan women underrated and depreciated their skills, making Puritan community believe that they are inferior to

written. The author is showing how little people care about the babies themselves in both of

The author uses imagery in the poem to make the experience of this one woman stand out vividly. The first lines of the poem say "she saw diapers steaming on the line / a doll slumped behind the door." The phrase "steaming on the line" is especially strong, making me

Poverty is a terrible condition, which as unfortunate as it is, many people across the globe suffer from. Poverty can present itself in many ways and in many different circumstances, which is shown in the following stories. In ' Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt, young Frank is burdened with the responsibiliity of providing for his family. Similarly, in 'The Street' by Ann Petry, Lutie, a single black mother, is struggling to find shelter for her family. In both 'Angela's Ashes' and 'The Street,' a key member of each family is desperately trying to support their loved ones and meet their basic human needs. In both passages, the author uses specific characters, events, and settings to demonstrate the theme that one needs perseverance to overcome poverty.

Another useful tool in analyzing a poem is to identify poetic devices, meter, and a rhyme scheme. Through her deft use of extended metaphor, Bradstreet weaves an intricate web of parallels between parent and author and between child and book--both relationships of creator to creation. This use of metaphor allows the reader to relate emotionally to Bradstreet’s situation. In line seven, we see the uses of litotes, “At thy return my blushing was not small,” to express the depth of her embarrassment. She also uses metonymy in line eight to express her pain more clearly, “My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.” The simile used in line nine stresses her objection to the published work, “I cast thee by as one unfit for light.” Then in line 19, the poetic device of consonance is used which provides emphasis on her warning, “In this array ‘mongst vulgars may’st thou roam.” In this poem, through the use of personification and apostrophe Bradstreet conveys her feelings and emotions. Anne Bradstreet ensures her poem’s success by linking the triumph and tragedy of authorship with the pain and pleasure of creating and nurturing human life. The meter used is

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

Additionally, literature allows us to envision how our fear of change is putting our unique liberal values in danger. In the article “The Writer’s Responsibility”, Margaret Atwood discusses how our inability of overcoming our fear of change is causing our liberty to hang by a thread. She states that, “A voice is a gift; it should be cherished and used... Powerless and silence go together; one of the first efforts made in any totalitarian takeover is to suppress the writers” (332). Atwood’s didactic tone, and her constant comparison of Canada’s society to totalitarianism and wars, causes a reader like myself to imagine Canada evolving into an atrocious country. Through this frightening imagery, Atwood is able to effectively deliver her message

It is possible that the narrator is trying to reassure herself in this passage by claiming that the child was never made, but then why write the poem to her unborn children?

Judith Wright’s poem “Mother to Child” is about a woman’s emotions during the different stages of motherhood. It tells the audience that the bond between a mother and her child is very powerful and that it changes as the child grows. Wright shows us this through her use of imagery, symbolism and the structure of her poem. The use of those three elements of literature help communicate the love the woman has for her child and how their connection grows stronger as time goes on.

Veering from the egocentric poems of the Romantic era, Victorian poets began to write poetry not only to express the feelings of an “I,” but also to inspire change in the collective “we.” Being from a historical period with a dramatic class divide, Victorian poets wrote with the intention of crafting beautiful lasting poetry as well as articulating a need for cultural reform in their now. One of the most renowned Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning possessed the expert skill of integrating not only imagery and precise rhyme scheme into her poetry, but afflicting her readers with a sense of pity so paramount they had no choice but to make a change.

The journal article Blake’s Infant Sorrow, by Ricks Carson, an english professor at Pace Academy, enlightens, “The child at the mother’s breast is an archetype of innocence, vulnerability, and spontaneous affection.” Even though Carson addresses the baby as innocent and finds the child to be a archetype relating to his mother, the infant also can be seen as suffering. In a way, this poem is laughing at the idea of Songs of Innocence. Blake, or the speaker, is harsh about the experience of being a child and refuses to be handled by his parents. Blake further states that the parents of the child treated him poorly throughout his childhood. The parents did not want the kid and was upset that they had a child. The father cried, the mother groaned, and the child was fussy. The poem is not very uplifting or positive, which means it fits perfectly with Blake’s collection, Songs of