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It becomes clearer as we progress that Elaine Risley is a highly damaged individual, cold and emotionally withdrawn, and we find a partial explanation in the bullying she suffered when young. She is condemned to a life apart, as we see right at the end of the book:.

Two old women giggling over their tea. The spare, detached style is precisely the point, and as fitting for Elaine as it is for Offred. If Atwood is known for novels rather than her poems, this is because of the dominance of the novel in the market; many of her poems convey her characteristic themes concisely and originally.

Compared with her recent shorter fiction and stories, this might well be true. Moral Disorder is an intriguing book, for the stories, written separately, are united to form a fictional biography of someone who may or may not be Atwood. The blurring of subjects suggests a common humanity in age and decay; the end, where the narrator uses her imagination to breathe life into an old photograph, is Atwood at her very best.

The comic use of the Greek chorus, who are now a chorus line, is equally good. Alongside this comic energy, though, comes an increasing bleakness in Atwood; in The Tent , and its title story, words are a dubious refuge against a cold world. This week on Literature on Lockdown we're showcasing a variety of literary activities that support our well-being to mark 'Mental Health Awareness Week' here in the UK.

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We do this in our legitimate interest. British Council complies with data protection law in the UK and laws in other countries that meet internationally accepted standards. One of the most well known poems in the collection is the first poem called: This Is A Photograph of Me.

This poem is how I was introduced to Margaret Atwood and it continues to have a lot of meaning in my life. I love poems about nature and Atwood often uses nature and the environment in her poems. This poem included. There has obviously been some kind of tragedy. For me, it has always continued to have meaning and that meaning has changed over time.

Photographs and photography seem to be a theme in this collection. There is a poem called Camera. A photographer is described as attempting to set up the perfect shot and making sure all of the elements will capture the perfect picture. In the end there is no perfect picture. The nature theme is seen in so many of Atwood's poems. I S-H marked it as to-read Jan 05, Nicole Donze marked it as to-read Feb 04, Megan marked it as to-read Apr 09, Ashley marked it as to-read Sep 21, Roya marked it as to-read Sep 25, Mirela Letailleur marked it as to-read Nov 10, Marcia marked it as to-read Jan 23, Alison Lee added it Jan 28, Liz Ford marked it as to-read Feb 18, Marc Kohlman marked it as to-read Apr 02, Diane Gallagher marked it as to-read Apr 18, Sreevidhya marked it as to-read Jun 19, Katherine Anne marked it as to-read Oct 04, Christopher marked it as to-read Dec 15, Sonja Milbourn marked it as to-read Dec 21, Amani marked it as to-read Dec 30, Jesse Swartzwelder marked it as to-read Feb 06, Rowe marked it as to-read Feb 10, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, childr Margaret Atwood was born in in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto.

Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in The Tent mini-fictions and Moral Disorder short stories both appeared in Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.