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17 Oct: "You Fit into Me" by Margaret Atwood

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

2 comments:

  1. What a great dissimile!

    Kind of a disturbing idea, a hook in the eye, one of our greatest sensory organs. This would probably cause severe damage to vision which builds on the fitness of their match.

    The most interesting part to me is that we don't know anything about either of the characters in the poem. What if the narrator is a serial killer and the second person is a detective, that wouldn't be that great of a fit.

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  2. A dissimile- how very interesting.

    I always enjoy Atwood's perspective. Remembering her feministic views of the world, I can only imagine that this is a nice stab at the world of men in one way or another. The pain, the freedom of the open eyes and both merging into one. Something man-made and designed to kill affecting something so natural as open vision, freedom.

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