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Margaret Atwood
In this poem, Margaret Atwood seems to be relating the experience of going back to visit an old childhood home that had burned down. As she sits there, she is brought back to when she and her...
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Margaret Atwood
Bats are frequently misunderstood creatures, and Margaret Atwood celebrates the lives of bats in her short story "My Life as a Bat." More importantly, she juxtaposes bat behavior with human...
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Margaret Atwood
The speaker of the poem is one of the mythical sirens, immortalized by Homer in The Odyssey. The sirens are bird/women who sing a beautiful song that lures men to their death. In Homer's version,...
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Margaret Atwood
In her novels and poems, Margaret Atwood often addressed themes concerning the lives of Native Americans in her home country of Canada. "The Poor Woman Learns to Write" would seem to be another...
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Margaret Atwood
Throughout the story, the narrator reveals many characteristics of bats, showing their physical features, their habits and behavior, and the way she imagines their personalities or souls. In...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s poem “The City Planners” uses a variety of poetic devices to achieve poetic effectiveness. The first two lines, for instance, open with a very heavily emphasized verb in which...
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Margaret Atwood
In Margaret Atwood’s free verse poem, ‘The Immigrants,’ belonging is often conveyed by its absence. The people moving to the new world are constantly in motion, searching for a place they can...
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Margaret Atwood
It is not exactly known what happened to Lucy. Lois and Lucy separated from their camp group one day while on an excursion. The other campers were nearby. Lucy had to use the bathroom, and Lois...
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Margaret Atwood
In this well-known poem, Canadian poet Margaret Atwood contemplates the development of language and how metaphor helps human beings deal with increasingly abstract concepts. The critical lines from...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood gave the speech "Attitude" during the commencement ceremony for graduates of University of Toronto on June 14th, 1983. 30-some years later, much of what she says still rings true...
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Margaret Atwood
This is rather a broad question to answer as you haven't really identified any poems specifically to respond to or if there are certain issues that you would like us to focus on. I have included...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's "It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers" is an examination of the contrast between the speaker's everyday life and the atrocities reported in newspapers each day. Early in the poem,...
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Margaret Atwood
The poem uses many images to describe the ways in which people physically change as they get older. People frequently become shorter with age, which the poem says happens because "A great unseen...
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Margaret Atwood
The Atwood "story" does several things at once. It is a guide of sorts, a kind of lesson to aspiring writers about how plot works, and about how stories end. Her point, given at the end of the...
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Margaret Atwood
The very premise of this story lies on a symbolic principle. In fact, the story is almost held together by symbolism, so you can probably analyze any object (or character) of importance in the...
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Margaret Atwood
While both of these essays touch on feminist issues, they certainly have their distinct differences that make for some interesting comparison possibilities! "My Body is My Own Business" is a very...
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Margaret Atwood
"Death by Landscape," by Margaret Atwood, is a story that takes place in the past and in the present. Lois, the main character, is sitting in her apartment in the present day looking at her...
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Margaret Atwood
Mood is difficult to define for any given work given mood in a subjective topic. Any text appeals to the emotions of any reader on different levels. Mood, from the Hunter College Glossary of...
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Margaret Atwood
True Trash begins in 1970 and then moves to 1980. The story is told from different time frames and in a way, aims to show us how things and perspectives change over time. True Trash is about Donny...
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Margaret Atwood
Psychoanalytic criticism, which derives from the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, has traditionally emphasized the conflict between three elements of the human mind. These elements are the...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's poem "Siren Song" is a modern take on an ancient Greek myth. An alluring female (appearing at least partially human) sings an irresistable song that leads men to their deaths. The...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's poetry collection "The Journals of Susanna Moodie," can be read as an expression of one woman's transformative experience as she journey's through Jungian archetypes and "meets"...
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Margaret Atwood
While many would consider it obvious to state that the attitude in a poem illustrates the attitude of the poet, it is most appropriate to assign the attitude presented in the poem to the narrator....
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), is a poem cycle based on Susanna Strickland Moodie's (1852), a non-fiction work about Moodie’s experience as immigrant and pioneer in the...
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood’s poem establishes a contrast between how she and her lover relate to the word love versus how others do. The poem begins by discussing some common usages. Atwood refers to the...
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Margaret Atwood
The speaker tells us what the secret is herself: I will tell the secret to you,to you, only to you.Come closer. This songis a cry for help: Help me!Only you, only you can,you are uniqueat last....
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is perhaps the leading figure in contemporary Canadian literature and the one with the most significant reputation outside as well as within Canada. She has written important works...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's poem "This is a Picture of Me" is a poem which can weigh very heavily upon a reader. Her choice of words bring about a sense of melancholy and sadness. The opening of the poem...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song" is addressed directly to the reader, and with the first stanza, the speaker creates the dramatic situation: This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s poem “The City Planners” presents an unappealing picture of a city that seems so rigidly planned that it is monotonous and boring. The neighborhoods the poem describes seem too...
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Margaret Atwood
In The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), Margaret Atwood attempts to engage with the experience of the Canadian landscape as a defining characteristic of the Canadian imagination. She does this...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's writings tend to speak to science fiction, nature, or feminism (as a whole, but not limited to). Her works which include images of nature tend to elevate the importance of nature...
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Margaret Atwood
A poetry analysis is a far more extensive task than can be done on eNotes, but I can help get you started in the right direction. Poetry analysis includes identifying poetic elements like...
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Margaret Atwood
Attempting to develop a style of writing evocative of a specific author without reading that author's works is an exercise in futility. The identifiable attributes of a particular author, such as...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood`s poem, “Siren Song” is a retelling of the siren episode from Homer’s “Odyssey” from the point of view of the sirens. The key to understanding the poem is to realize that there is a...
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Margaret Atwood
This is a very broad question, and you might want to think about what specific poems you want us to compare. Atwood is certainly a prolific writer, and as a result has published successful books of...
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Margaret Atwood
A quick survey of some of Atwood's poetry reveals that they are rich and fecund texts and particularly suitable to a psychoanalytical approach. This is because so many of Atwood's poems develop the...
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Margaret Atwood
Although the poem is certainly open to interpretation, what Atwood is doing is drawing contrasting images between what is expected and what is reality. This occurs both through the language of the...
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Margaret Atwood
Yes there are examples of all three elements in this poem. To review, a metaphor is comparing two unlike things wherein one thing is said to be the other. Examples of metaphor in this poem...
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood uses several poetic devices in her concise poem “You Fit Into Me” to portray the two sides of a relationship. Although it is only four lines long, the poem is an example of extended...
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Margaret Atwood
Some thinkers would argue that women in power would be little different than men in power. Some post modern thinkers believe that power, itself, is the defining characteristic, and whether or man...
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Margaret Atwood
In the poem, "The City Planners," several tract houses collapse because they've been built on ground that is not stable. The collapse is due to poor planning caused by political corruption. The...
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Margaret Atwood
Hopefully the potential changes to which you refer will be positive ones for Canada and the rest of the west and the world in general. After the 'boom and bust' cycle which negatively affected the...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood has not only reimagined The Tempest in a contemporary setting, she has created a frame with a Tempest-like plot in which staging a production of the play itself occurs. This...
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood uses indirect characterization of Gertrude to portray her as a funny, modern, discerning, and determined woman. Indirect characterization occurs when the author allows readers to come to...
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Margaret Atwood
Penelope's relationship with both her mother and father in The Penelopiad is very complex, and it's a topic that even in the afterlife she still cannot make sense of. After her death, Penelope is...
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Margaret Atwood
Margret Atwood is most noted for her novels and the many awards, including a Booker Award, that they have won. Yet Atwood began her writing career as a poet in the 1960s with her first poetry...
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Margaret Atwood
This is a very interesting hypothetical question to consider. Clearly both Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood cover similar themes regarding the dystopian end of the world thanks to man's...
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Margaret Atwood
The tone of a poem is the mood or emotion it conveys. Margaret Atwood's poem, "At the Tourist Centre in Boston" conveys a tone of cynicism and disgust at a tourist display about Canada. The speaker...
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Margaret Atwood
I think that Atwood represents a postmodern approach to literature and to consciousness in seeking to broaden her own experience in the hopes of including others in it. Atwood writes about what it...