Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” It is hard to sympathize with a person when you have no idea where he or she is coming from or what they are going through. Similar experiences allow us to extend our sincere appreciation and understanding for another human being’s situations and trials of life. Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” expresses the emotions that Bradstreet felt when her most intimate thoughts were …showed first 75 words of 1095 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1095 total…understand how special this work was to her. What Bradstreet says, “about family, about herself as…mother, becomes inextricably original and imitative, private and public, hers and her culture’s” (Rosenmeier 154). The intense emotion in this poem shows how seriously she took her writing and how much it meant to her. It is because of this strong devotion and commitment to her writing that her poetry is considered so superb and is still reverenced today.