Tag: susanna moodie

  • Relationships

    The following poem is from The Journals of Susanna Moodie, by Margaret Atwood. How relevant is this poem to the way we understand relationships, to the way we imagine relationships to be? Support your response with reference (comparison/contrast) to one or more poems you’ve studied and to your previous knowledge and/or experience. Further Arrivals After…

  • Death of a Young Son by Drowning

    “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” by Margaret Atwood is a moving poem about the death of a child. The use of metaphor makes the poem more challenging. Theme: Hope dies when one’s child dies. Techniques: metaphor, simile, symbolism, allusion. Issues: What happened to the speaker? To her son? What reflective question does this…