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Summary This is a photograph of meThe title of this poem by
Margret Atwood is This is a photograph of
me, and as you come to recognize the content of the poem, it
becomes much more clear what the significance of the title is to
the
rest of the poem.
The poem is told by a person (Margret Atwood) who is looking at,
and
describing a picture that was taken "some time ago". The content
of
the poem is very clearly divided into two different parts, not
only
physically (by brackets), but also by the tone of the poem. The
first
half of the poem appears to be a very nice description of
the
Canadian landscape surrounding the area where Atwood was
raised
(Northern Ontario and Quebec). This first half of the poem seems
to
almost put the reader in a calmer state by slowing the poem
down,
and using very soft diction ("gentle slope"). This calm state is
however
quite abruptly put to a halt at the beginning of the second half
of the
poem when the reader finds out that the speaker is dead. The
once
panoramic view of the scenery is now zoomed in and the lake
that
was originally in the background is now in the center of the
image.
The reader is also told near the end of the poem that if they
look
deep enough into the poem, that they will be able to see the
dead
person.
The theme of this poem could definitly be blurriness, because
right
from the beginning, the author chooses to use words such as
smeared
and blurred when describing the image. Also, the whole idea that
the
author does not say exactly what they mean at any time means
that
they intended for some details to be a bit blurry. Due to this,
I am
forced to believe that another theme of this poem is hidden
meanings. Many hidden meanings are also hidden within
metaphors,
of which there is a strong presence in this poem.
There is no definite structure to this poem, but it is
interesting how
the author uses syntax and brackets to make the reader
thinking
differently.
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This poem has a very strong presence of metaphors, which the
author
seems to use to include hidden details. Another stylistic divice
found
quite heavily within this poem is imagery because of the
constant
referal to a picture, and the author saying that if you look at
the
picture with more detail that you can see other things. This
leads me
to believe that the author intends for different parts of the
picture to
represent other things (the lake representing the fluid that a
baby is
contained in while in a mothers womb).
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6 C O M M E N T S :
javieth July 19, 2010 at 2:15 PM
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javieth July 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM
This blog is really amazing, I love all kind of photos, becauseI
usually take photos everywhere where a go. Actually I sawbeautiful
houses in costa rica homes for sale, this house arestunning and
wonderful.
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Garima Marwah May 7, 2011 at 11:05 PM
i dnt think u hv used d ryt interpretation. d theme of d poemis
actually feminism.
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on looker June 28, 2011 at 10:04 AM
i think garima marwah is right. the poem is often read
asfeministic. will u pls elaborate it a bit garima
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Anum Iqbal December 23, 2012 at 1:57 AM
the decription of the poem is not enough, highlights thetheme
and metaphors as well.she has intenally upset thats why she is
purging out hermelacholy by imagening herself drowned. this poem is
aboutpost colonialsm an epoch in which women were
consideredinferior and subjugated by men....
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