Boushahri 5 ENG 3050 17 May 2016 “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet in her poem “the Author to her book” is focusing on her life story. The story is basically about her poem that she wrote; each word and details are related to the meaning of the poem. Anne wanted to finish her poem and show the complexity of the story in full but, after having a child and becoming a mother, she had no time to do this. Her poem was known everywhere but she could not have the chance to develop and fix her story as she wished. According to her poem, we can see that the Theme is talking about a personal life and experience of the woman. The Tone of the poetry has a remarkable motif that is gentle but strict at the same time, so that the reader will go through it when he/she read the poem. Additionally, this poetry expresses a lot of Persona by showing details of the author’s life. These three elements are combined and inseparable while reading the poem. Thus, everyone who reads this will feel the unity of these elements on basis of an overall meaning of the poem. The representing of Anne’s life in a book is a real background of the events in the poem. This poem has a great Theme because Anne in her poem is focused on sincere confession about her personal experience, her outlook on life, and difficult relationships with her parents. She started and ended the poem with many details about her personal life. Anne described her life, concentrating the attention of the reader to the fact that she was an author that wrote a poem while being in the condition that can be compared to having a child. As she mentioned, “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth did’st by my side remain, till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, who thee aboad exposed to public view; made thee in rangs, halting, to the press to trudge, where not lessened, all my judge” (21). With these words, the author shows that she has nothing to hide from the readers. She tells the story of her formation as a person and those factors that influenced these changes (Singleton). According to her words, her book is her baby but the publication of the book became her main concern (compared to raising a child). The opening of the poem has a strong Tone, its introducing multiple feelings and emotions are full of controversial issues. Anne’s life and her feelings are about her poetry and the results of her work during a long period. She said that she was dressing her child, so she felt her book on the emotional level, as she wanted the book to be better and more interesting to the readers. However, she did not have the chance to do it. She stated that “yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet; in a better dress to trim thee was my mind, but naught save homespun cloth in the house I find” (21). In the selected poem, I feel that the emotional Tone and feeling of the author are connected and related to the whole meaning of t ...