What concrete imagery does Cavendish use to express her anxiety about writing and her poetry? What metaphors does Cavendish use and what do they mean?
What is her overall argument in each poem?

“The Poetress’s Petition” by Margaret Cavendish (1651)

Like to a fever’s pulse my heart doth beat,
For fear my book some great repulse should meet.
If it be naught, let her in silence lie;
Disturb her not; let her in quiet die.
Let not the bells of your dispraise ring loud,
But wrap her up in silence as a shroud.
Cause black oblivion on her hearse to lie;
Instead of tapers, let dark night stand by.
Instead of flowers on her grave to strow
Before her hearse, sleepy, dull poppy throw.
Instead of scutcheons, let my tears be hung,
Which grief and sorrow from my eyes out wrung.
Let those that bear her corpse no jesters be,
But sober, sad, and grave mortality
No satyr poets to her funeral come,
No altars raised to write inscriptions on.
Let dust of all forgetfulness be cast
Upon her corpse; there let it lie and waste.
Nor let her rise again, unless some know
At judgments some good merits she can show;
Then she shall live in heavens of high praise,
And for her glory, garlands of fresh bays.

“An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses” by Margaret Cavendish (1651)

Condemn me not for making such a coil
About my Book, alas it is my Child.
Just like a Bird, when her Young are in Nest,
Goes in, and out, and hops and takes no Rest; 4
But when their Young are fledged, their heads out peep,
Lord what a chirping does the Old one keep!
So I, for fear my Strengthless Child should fall
Against a door, or stool, aloud I call, 8
Bid have a care of such a dangerous place:
Thus write I much, to hinder all disgrace.