Suffering is common for the female characters in Atwood’s poems, although they are never passive victims. “In her early poetry,” Gloria Onley wrote in the West Coast Review, Atwood “is acutely aware of the problem of alienation, the need for real human communication and the establishment of genuine human community-real as opposed to mechanical or manipulative genuine as opposed to the counterfeit community of the body politic.” This separation leads her characters to be isolated from one another and from the natural world, resulting in their inability to communicate, to break free of exploitative social relationships, or to understand their place in the natural order.
Wagner, writing in The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism, also saw the dualistic nature of Atwood’s poetry, asserting that “duality presented as separation” in her work.
Sherrill Grace, writing in Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood, identified the central tension in all of Atwood’s work as “the pull towards art on one hand and towards life on the other.” Atwood “is constantly aware of opposites-self/other, subject/object, male/female, nature/man-and of the need to accept and work within them,” Grace explained. The Circle Game takes this opposition further, setting such human constructs as games, literature, and love against the instability of nature. Double Persephone dramatizes the contrasts between life and art, as well as natural and human creations. These two books marked out terrain her subsequent poetry has explored. Pratt Medal, and The Circle Game (1964), winner of a Governor General’s award. She first came to public attention as a poet in the 1960s with her collections Double Persephone (1961), winner of the E.J. Atwood’s critical popularity is matched by her popularity with readers her books are regularly bestsellers and her novels have been adapted into popular movies and television series.Ītwood was born in Ottawa and earned her BA from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and MA from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Clarke Award, and the Governor General’s Award, twice.
Her books have received critical acclaim in the United States, Europe, and her native Canada, and she has received numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Regarded as one of Canada’s finest living writers, Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, story writer, essayist, and environmental activist.
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