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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood Poems
| 1. | A Sad Child | 1/3/2003 |
| 2. | A Visit | 1/3/2003 |
| 3. | Backdropp Addresses Cowboy | 1/2/2004 |
| 4. | Bored | 1/3/2003 |
| 5. | Death of a Young Son by Drowning | 6/23/2015 |
| 6. | February | 1/7/2015 |
| 7. | Flying Inside Your Own Body | 1/3/2003 |
| 8. | Habitation | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | Helen Of Troy Does Countertop Dancing | 1/20/2003 |
| 10. | In The Secular Night | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | Is/Not | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | More And More | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | Morning In The Burned House | 1/20/2003 |
| 14. | Night Poem | 1/3/2003 |
| 15. | Postcards | 1/3/2003 |
| 16. | Provisions | 1/3/2003 |
| 17. | Sekhmet, The Lion-Headed Goddess Of War | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | Siren Song | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | Spelling | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | The Circle Game | 9/8/2015 |
| 21. | The City Planners | 1/3/2003 |
| 22. | The Landlady | 1/3/2003 |
| 23. | The Moment | 1/3/2003 |
| 24. | The Rest | 1/13/2003 |
| 25. | The Shadow Voice | 1/2/2004 |
| 26. | They Eat Out | 10/21/2006 |
| 27. | This Is A Photograph Of Me | 1/3/2003 |
| 28. | Variation On The Word Sleep | 1/13/2003 |
| 29. | Variations On The Word Love | 1/3/2003 |
| 30. | You Fit Into Me | 1/3/2003 |
Comments about Margaret Atwood
A Sad Child
You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.
Take up dancing to forget.
Forget what?
Your sadness, your shadow,
whatever it was that was done to you
the day of the lawn party
when you came inside flushed with the sun,
your mouth sulky with sugar,
in your new dress with the ribbon
and the ice-cream ...
More And More
More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to assimilate the world, including
you, if possible through the skin
like a cool plant's tricks with oxygen
and live by a harmless green burning.
I would not consume
you or ever
makes me fall in love with poetry every day
All of her work has helped me through the tough time of my childhood. I am now a better person and can overcome anything. #believetoachieve
Margaret Atwood's styles so natural....
it flows from the heart
to the ink of the pen and
onto the paper surface
(that's my attempt at poetry) It encourages wannabe poets like me... to take courage that poetry writing is not so complicated... a view Ms Atwood (a poet with a string of awards) endorses A BIG THANK YOU
She's great with the cleverness and craft, fresh rather than trite. Definitely one of my favs.
Atwood's poems reveal a raw sense of feminism and wit. She writes freely yet craftily addresses the issues she wishes to broadcast. I really love her cynicism and apparent indifference to appearances and norms. She's radical!
In the secular night, seems to be a cynnical poem addressing ones life. It is made apparent there is a sort of deterministic lifestyle, presented to humans 'you took..you say..you start..' almost makes the reader feel as though he has no choice or power over his own actions. Also, the reader feels as though hes all alone, yet since he really has no power over his own actions, his seclusion is inevitable. The poem is a story of life, from start to end and the continuity of life. It starts with the 'secular' which could mean 'from century to century', and ends with the century grinds on... implying an on going cycles of centuries. 'The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence, amount to much the same thing' this poem also addresses Gods role in life, once a person believes he has no power over his own actions, the existence of God is irrelevant. Overall the poem in the secular night, is about life, its assumed ownership over the person, and his inability to do anything about it.
great poem! ¿