Scary? Yeah, I thought so. This is the face of Margaret Atwood, crazy, scary, fat, feminist, cat lady. I am shocked that she has no one to spend Valentine's Day with. To answer #7, I guess I would say, "February is a time to shift from dread and despair in winter to life and happiness in the spring." But somehow I just feel like that doesn't encompass it all. In the poem, Atwood recommends we "snip a few testicles" [line 16] or "eat our young, like sharks." [line 18] Margaret is a bitter, loveless woman who manifests her lack of relationship skills as hatred for everyone and everything good in the world. She's Canadian, so naturally this only confirms my thesis and supports the random use of hockey. Atwood has an unhealthy need to discuss her cat's hygiene and body parts ("enough of your greedy whining and your small pink bumhole" [lines 29-30]) with the speaker, a need I do not appreciate in even the slightest. All in all, I wasn't a huge fan of the poem, and I most definitely did not connect to it. I must be missing something big here.
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