Considering that Bradstreet’s poems have been published without her knowledge, this notion is quite understandable.

At the first view, one can immediately see that this is a very personal poem, specified on an individual experience of Bradstreet.

The fact that she is an author writing about an author, also that the poem whose theme is a book is itself part of a book or that looking at an deeper level, Bradstreet while writing the poem is developing a relationship to her piece of writing while she writes about the author’s relationship to his piece of writing is very ironic. This could be carried even further when considering that I- the author of this commentary- am writing about an author writing about an author. The irony is reinforced as the reader finds his own place in the circle of publishing described. The idea

In addition to the extended metaphor of the poem as the authors child other smaller metaphors which relate to the main metaphor are employed: “Even feet”(l.15) refers to the fact that Bradstreet would have liked to edit the poet feet of her poems more evenly. “washed thy face”(l.13) This is figurative for the process of editing which is meant to “clean” a piece of writing.

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