Kryke Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 If anyone has any ideas about what this poem might mean please post it ASAP! thank you! Here is the poem:Game After Supperby Margaret AtwoodThis is before electricity,it is when there were porches.On the sagging porch an old manis rocking. The porch is wooden,the house is wooden and grey;in the living room which smells ofsmoke and mildew, soonthe woman will light the kerosene lamp.There is a barn but I am not in the barn;there is an orchard too, gone bad,its apples like soft corkbut I am not there either.I am hiding in the long grasswith my two dead cousins,the membrane grown alreadyacross their throats.We hear crickets and our own heartsclose to our ears;though we giggle, we are afraid.From the shadows aroundthe corner of the housea tall man is coming to find us:He will be an uncle,if we are lucky. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetnsimple786 Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 Is this for an assignment? We're not here to do work for you, but we help you. Why don't you tell us what you think parts of it mean? You don't have to have the 'big idea' of what the entire poem is about. What do certain phrases make you think of? It can be literal. Then look at how Atwood is using literary features. What's she doing? What's the effect? Start off and we can contribute Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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