Response to The Author to Her Book by Ann Bradstreet
Despite Bradstreet having written numerous poetry concerning her reflection, she was not willing to share the poems with anybody else. Her stand concerning sharing the poems with other people could have generated various questions among the readers, wondering why she refused a good chance that could have brought her fame. I understand the experiences she was going through; she was not willing to share the poems with anybody else since she was living in a male-dominated society where women were not permitted to write poetry. Poetry writing was only meant for the elite men.
Bradstreet’s poem demonstrated the struggle she underwent while determining her abilities and virtues to inscribe a worthy book. She never believed that she could be able to write a worthy book. Reading her poems, I was impressed by her humbleness; she was not proud of her book. Despite that she had excellent skills to write an astonishing book, she was never proud of herself, but instead, felt that she was not supposed to share the book with anybody else. Her humble nature moved me.
I also liked the way she described her book; she likened her book to a child whom she raised well to become impressive. However, her attempts did not succeed ‘but more defects I saw.’ Her style of writing moved me, she employed a fantastic perspective of comparing her writings with a mother and a child. I sympathized with the way she cared for her book as a mother cares for her child. I think that employing a comparison technique between his book and a mother to a child could win the reader’s sympathy and make them develop an excellent understanding of her experiences and feelings. Bradstreet was a unique poet; she employs exceptional creativity while writing her poems; it was rare to find such a poet during her era.