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Margaret Atwood’s Poetry

 Margaret Atwood
 

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name of poet · Margaret Eleanor Atwood
 
date of birth · November 18, 1939
 
place of birth · Ottawa, Ontario
 
favored meter(s) and rhyme scheme(s) · None
 
favored named form(s)  · Free verse
 
poetic and political movements to which the poet belonged
 · Canadian nationalist poets of the 1960s
 · Second-wave feminism
 
related poets · Gwendolyn McEwen, Milton Acorn, Michael Ondaatje, Jay McPherson
 
themes · Civilization vs. wilderness; the inevitability of death
 
motifs · Photographs
 
symbols · The snake; the moon; the female body
 
other relevant facts · Atwood is perhaps most famous for her novels, among them The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Cat’s Eye (1988), and The Blind Assassin, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000. Two other recent novels, Alias Grace (1996) and Oryx and Crake (2003), have both been international bestsellers.
 
 
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