Life in Literature Throughout history, the artform of writing has captured our attention and inspired awe among the readers of this form of work. However, along with the awe that these works can inspire, they can also spawn frustration and doubt in their creators. This truth is exemplified in Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book”. Through the speaker’s use of apostrophe and personification in conjunction with each other, as well as their use of metaphor and rhyme scheme, the speaker effectively communicates the hardships that writers must go through and the idea that there is a real relationship between an author and their work-beyond what one may assume there to be. The speaker’s use of apostrophe and personification give life to the work that they are talking about and allows the reader to view it as a living being, which plays into their use of metaphor in the…show more content… Their use of rhyme scheme in the form of couplets- or more precisely her imperfections in her rhyme scheme- play into their emotional ties to the piece that are established earlier in the poem.These devices used together creates the effect of breathing life into their work and accurately displaying the hardships an author must go through in the creation and publication of their work and how it affects their self worth. Poetry often serves the purpose of allowing the writer to mull out important ideas in a succinct way or to address something that matters to them. In “The Author to Her Book” this principle still stands. The speaker’s use of apostrophe, which is a method of writing in poetry where a writer addresses someone who cannot respond, as well as their use of personification adds life to the work of literature they are describing in a
