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Game After Supper - Margaret Atwood


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If anyone has any ideas about what this poem might mean please post it ASAP! thank you! :D

Here is the poem:

Game After Supper

by Margaret Atwood

This is before electricity,

it is when there were porches.

On the sagging porch an old man

is rocking. The porch is wooden,

the house is wooden and grey;

in the living room which smells of

smoke and mildew, soon

the 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 cork

but I am not there either.

I am hiding in the long grass

with my two dead cousins,

the membrane grown already

across their throats.

We hear crickets and our own hearts

close to our ears;

though we giggle, we are afraid.

From the shadows around

the corner of the house

a tall man is coming to find us:

He will be an uncle,

if we are lucky.

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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 :D

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