Archive for July 16th, 2002

Slowly Plodding Toward Extinction

Tuesday, July 16th, 2002
The second section in Margaret Atwood’s Selected Poems 1965-1975 entitled “from The Animals in That Country” focuses more on her Canadian background than the first section. One theme is that of Canada as wilderness. The title poem begins with the stanza “In that country the animals/ have the faces of people” and ends with “In [...]

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