Margaret atwood-shes an canadian poet and shes also published 15 books.
This poem is freakishly short! I feel like shorter poems are more of a challenge to analyze because there isn't as much information to pull from. This poem is two stanzas and each only has two lines, there is no rhyme scheme. This poem can be analyzed in different ways, for one i viewed it as a person was in love but the love was rough. almost like "i hate that i love you" sort of feeling. The image of a fish hook into an open eye is not pleasant nor painless. So maybe Margaret meant the love was painful, the way the guy fit perfectly for her was painful? This poem is super short and hard to figure out any deeper meaning. I did notice there are no capitalized letters or punctuation marks. I think Atwood did this to add a definent strong feeling on her emotions toward the topic.
I really liked your viewpoint on this poem you always have interesting thongs to say :)
ReplyDeleteI analyze poems just like u lol but i definitely saw it from the same viewpoint
ReplyDeleteI think it's harder with a short poem too!
ReplyDeleteLook up hook and eye closures and see if that adds to your understanding.