ABSTRACT: Atwood’s poetry on a level focuses on the question of identity with as much fashion as Neruda and Walcott did in their works. In her works, we find her capability in playing with word and language. A recessive reading of her poetry can highlight these further. Atwood actually before a novelist, considered himself first as a poet. In her life a spiritual and mental growth are found as her journey from innocence from experience came after her confrontation with Canadian Wilderness, middleclass norms, ideals of Christianity and stark materialism of North American Society. And she shows a journey through a spiritual wasteland before they can reach maturity. In this paper I have attempted to show her poetic world …show more content…
Perhaps though boredom is happier. It is for dogs or groundhogs. Now I wouldn’t be bored. Now I would know too much Now I would know.” (Bored) Atwood illustrates a remarkable determination and strong will to face death which is a recurring theme in many poems like ‘Another Elegy’, Marrying the Hangman’, ‘Time’, ‘Bedside’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Morning in the burned house’. In ‘Morning in the burned house’, she says that nothing remains here as everything has been damaged by fire and smoke. As she says: “No one else is around where have they gone to, brother and sister, mother and father?” (Morning in the burned house) In ‘Flowers’, the speaker feels pity and sad for her dying father. The speaker realizes that one day she will also die as man is mortal and death is common to all. As she says in the concluding