Question: Can someone plz help me analyze this poem? i do not understand it? The Author to her Book- Anne Bradstreet\nThou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, \nWho after birth did'st by my side remain, \nTill snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, \nWho thee abroad expos'd to public view, \nMade thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, \nWhere errors were not lessened (all may judge). \nAt thy return my blushing was not small, \nMy rambling brat (in print) should mother call. \nI cast thee by as one unfit for light, \nThy Visage was so irksome in my sight, \nYet being mine own, at length affection would \nThy blemishes amend, if so I could. \nI wash'd thy face, but more defects I saw, \nAnd rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw. \nI stretcht thy joints to make thee even feet, \nYet still thou run'st more hobbling than is meet. \nIn better dress to trim thee was my mind, \nBut nought save home-spun Cloth, i' th' house I find. \nIn this array, 'mongst Vulgars mayst thou roam. \nIn Critics' hands, beware thou dost not come, \nAnd take thy

Answer: she's talking about her own writing, either poem, novel or story:\n\nTranslated:\n\nYou child of my brain, who after I wrote you stuck around until others grabbed you and showed you around and tried to publish you even though you were flawed.  When they sent you back to me I thought you sucked so I tossed you aside, but since you were my work, I thought I could fix you.  So I edited you by fixing problems, but by fixing them, more problems were exposed.  I tried to lengthen and shorten you to make you sound better.  I tried to give you "better dress" but all I had was "home-spun cloth" which is to say, I tried to make you sound better but my imagination wasn't up to the task.  At last I sent you out lookin pretty bad, so I hope you don't fall into the hands of critics.  So go out and be read by people who haven't seen you and if they ask who your father is, say I don't have one.  If they ask who your mother is say that she was broke so she sent me out unfinished, so she could maybe make some cash.
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