" she shows us Anne Bradstreet as a mother. She tells us of her children, "I had eight birds hatched in one nest,Four cocks there were, and hens the rest," (142, 1-2). It is here we learn that she had four boys and four girls; although it is believed she birthed a few more later after writing this poem. We also see throughout the poem a metaphor of her family to birds; the whole poem in all actuality is an extended metaphor. The subject matter is her family, essentially her children. She tells the reader of her worries and fears for her children. She worries that flight will bring them the wrong company. Bradstreet uses a simplistic style of couplets throughout the poem; this makes her material somewhat easier for the reader to relate. "Till at last they felt their wing,Mounted the trees, and
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