text: can someone plz help me analyze this poem? i do not understand it? the author to her book- anne bradstreet thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain,  who after birth did'st by my side remain,  till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,  who thee abroad expos'd to public view,  made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge,  where errors were not lessened (all may judge).  at thy return my blushing was not small,  my rambling brat (in print) should mother call.  i cast thee by as one unfit for light,  thy visage was so irksome in my sight,  yet being mine own, at length affection would  thy blemishes amend, if so i could.  i wash'd thy face, but more defects i saw,  and rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.  i stretcht thy joints to make thee even feet,  yet still thou run'st more hobbling than is meet.  in better dress to trim thee was my mind,  but nought save home-spun cloth, i' th' house i find.  in this array, 'mongst vulgars mayst thou roam.  in critics' hands, beware thou dost not come,  and take thy she's talking about her own writing, either poem, novel or story:  translated:  you 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.