‘Christmas Carols’ is a poem written by Margaret Atwood, it is a poem from Atwood’s ‘True Stories’ collection, published in 1981, which we have looked at and also includes other poems we have studied such as ‘A Womans Issue’ and ‘Half Hanged Mary’. This poem is written in response to the anti-abortionists is America, who […]
Out of all the poems I have read so far by Margaret Atwood ‘A Woman’s Issue’ is definitely one of my favourites and the one I understand the most. The poem describes the unfair treatment of women for men’s preference, through the personal thoughts of someone in a museum. The setting of a museum is […]
W.B Yeats William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was born the the 13th June 1865 and died on the 28th January 1939. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey […]
Feminism is the belief that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social equals to men. These people can be either male or female human beings, although the ideology is commonly (and perhaps falsely) associated mainly with women. The basic idea of Feminism revolves around the principle that just because […]
After repeatedly scrutinising the three Margaret Atwood poems; ‘Spelling’, ‘A Woman’s Issue’ and ‘Christmas Carols’ I have begin to notice a few themes and techniques continuously appear in her poems. These techniques and themes i then think will enable me to easily identify a Margaret Atwood poem. In the three poems she uses very graphic […]
I have recently been given the task by my English teacher of writing about my favourite book. My favourite book is my most recently read which i finished reading only the other day, ‘Little Prisoners by Casey Watson. It is the third book in a set and in my opinion definitely the best out of […]
My first post! Today in my A-level English Literature class we looked at 3 poems, each written by Margaret Atwood; ‘A woman’s issue’, ‘Spelling’ and ‘Christmas Carols.’ From first read at each of these poems it was apparent that they all had a deeper theme than what seemed from the title. We focus our lesson […]
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