. Abstract The extent to which Margaret Atwood’s poetry involves hurtful connections between people and their environment is evident to anyone who has read her books. The theme figures prominently from the outset, in The Circle Game (1966), The Animals in That Country (1968), The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), and Procedures for Underground (1970). Atwood’s attention to ‘nature’ soon extends dramatically to spiky relationships between the sexes in Power Politics (1971). The book set off such shock waves in Canada that to this day literary folk will readily invoke the first poem: ‘you fit into me/like a hook into an eye//a fish hook/an open eye’ (1). 1 Yet the speaker who presides over the rest of the book is, I eventually will argue, neither so ferocious nor so beleaguered as the quotation or some readers would have us believe.
[you fit into me] you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye - Margaret Atwood, from Power Politics, 1971. Interview Margaret Atwood says, ―It seemed to me that getting married would be a kind of death.‖(Valerie, p.16) According to Margaret Atwood, marriage should follow love. A marriage which is not based on mutual love is meaningless. The narrator says she was fool to enter into the bond of marriage.