Are they excuses or guilt? At the beginning God tells Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit. Adam disobeys God by doing so, but most people place the blame on Eve. In the poem "Eva's Apology", Eva expresses her feelings towards the whole situation and shows how she is not to blame. Blame Adam for the pain we endure today. Eve eats from the forbidden tree out of curiosity. She wants to share it with Adam, so he can feel the way she feels. Eve gives the fruit to Adam out of love, but does not force him to eat it. Adam has control of his mind, so he disobeys God on his own. “Do not do what goes against your heart” (Lanyer 424). Aemilia Lanyer, the author of the poem “Eve's Apology,” lived between the mid-1500s and 1600s. Living in this time period had a lot of influence on her writing. He published his seminal book, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, the same year that the King James Bible and three of Shakespeare's plays were published (Wilhelm 424). Lanyer brings out the life of this poem with poetic devices, irony, and unusual language. To begin, the poem "Eve's Apology" uses many different poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, rhyme schemes, and simile. The author uses a large amount of alliteration, which is the repetition of constant sounds generally at the beginning of words. Alliteration can be seen in the words “thing” and “weakness” in line 3. Some other examples of alliteration in the poem are “subtle serpent” (23), “he had it” (24), and “with words that” ( 30). Assonance, the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds, is another poetic device widely used by the author. Some examples of assonance are found in lines 10 “ The 'p...... middle of the paper ......g this poem, the author reveals older examples of words and phrases that we do not know or use today. In "Eva's Apology", Layner confidently expresses her point of view on female inequality and injustice using poetic devices, while still maintaining an ironic tone and bringing out unusual language. He is clearly trying to prove that women and men are equal. She suggests that since Adam is a man, therefore "stronger" than Eve, he should be held responsible for eating the forbidden fruit rather than "weaker" Eve. Layner believes that men should not look down on women as inferior and weaker than themselves; successfully demonstrates that women deserve equal status to men. Throughout the poem, Layner points out that the reason men have always been condescending towards women is dishonest because men are actually more to blame for the pain we endure today..