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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
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
"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
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 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
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
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
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
Some Margaret Attwood quotations from 'The Year Of The Flood' and effects on society might be : “What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” ― Margaret Atwood, The...
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You're Ugly Too
Exasperated with talking to Zoe, Earl makes a comment to her that ends up connecting both she and Kat from "Hairball." Earl remarks that he, and men, in general, are just as alienated from modern...
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The City Planners
The City Planners explores a global warming angle in the theme of man vs. nature. Expressing a horror at the calm neatness of suburban neighborhoods in the face of environmental disaster, the poem...
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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
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 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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This Is a Photograph of Me
Both of these poems reveal that establishing a sense of selhood and identity is something that is very difficult and hard to achieve. In "This is a Photograph of Me," inspite of the easy assurances...
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1984
Atwood's poems and Orwell's themes connect to one another because both works speak to the perpetual condition of war that strengthens those in the position of power. The government of Big Brother...
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Happy Endings
In "Happy Endings," Margaret Atwood presents a number of possible plots for a typical short story about marriage. Section "A." is the most typical, uncomplicated, and therefore the most unrealistic...
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This Is a Photograph of Me
A seemingly uncomplicated, easy to read poem transforms itself unexpectedly into an almost philosophical poem about life or losing life and how it just fits into the whole scheme of things. Nobody...
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This Is a Photograph of Me
In this poem all is not what it seems and Margaret Attwood uses everyday images and an uncomplicated style to get her message across. The supposed photograph which is the subject of this poem...
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This Is a Photograph of Me
Photographs tell us about people, places or events and are usually a fond reminder of something. This poem starts off in a predictable manner and we are drawn into the poem by its natural flow and...
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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
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
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...
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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
The correct answer is d) "the thumbs of rubber/ gloves turned softly inside out" The reason is that doing something SOFTLY means doing it very quietly. For example, "The man spoke softly" means the...
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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
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
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 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
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
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 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
A reader of any text can only assume the reason behind an author's creation of a text. Unless an author provides a reasoning for the reader, all suggestions are assumptive. One can suggest why they...
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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
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
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...
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Margaret Atwood
The subject of the Atwood poem is the nature of a relationship and its ambiguities. The first line seems to allude to a perfunctory sexual union ‘You fit into me’. The image is a biological one...
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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...
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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...
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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
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
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
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
On a literal level, you are right. The speaker in the poem is a stripper who is justifying herself and her profession (the money's good, it's easier than doing retail work, etc). But more that...
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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
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
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
Margaret Atwood took “furtive glee” in her story “Happy Endings,” writing in what she thought was an experimental and innovative form, only to discover that the form itself had already been...
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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
Another,very unpleasant, way of reading and interpreting the poem 'Morning In The Burned House' by Margaret Attwood would be to see her,the narrrator, as the ghost of the child who died in the...