Maternity and Identification in Margaret Atwood's Poetry Collection Two Headed Poems
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A large proportion of existing academic scholarship on Margaret Atwood focuses on the prevalence of violence, death and existential isolation in her work. Although some Atwood scholars have acknowledged the more optimistic aspects of her work, many have read her recurring focus upon death and human suffering as signs of a prevailing nihilism and negativity. In Power Politics the sphere of love is depicted as an arena of power struggle. Several of the poems in You Are Happy and Two-Headed Poems explore the victimization of women. However, this paper examines that when considered through the prism of Kristevan psychoanalysis, Atwood’s exploration of human suffering and interpersonal conflict opens up a route to reconciliation and renewal. Power Politics presents circumstances wherein love and freedom lose their meaning, yet a sign of transformation emerges when the speaker renounces polarity and the logic of power. This, together with other poems in You Are Happy, displays a holism evident in Two-Headed Poems in which maternity is foregrounded as a primary means by which to transcend rigid social oppositions and conventions, and even species barrier. Here Atwood reviews the logic of power relations through an exploration of interactions between men and women, mothers and children, exploring the ways in which the dissolution of the human ego serve to collapse the boundaries between self and other.
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A large proportion of existing academic scholarship on Margaret Atwood focuses on the prevalence of violence, death and existential isolation in her work. Although some Atwood scholars have acknowledged the more optimistic aspects of her work, many have read her recurring focus upon death and human suffering as signs of a prevailing nihilism and negativity. In Power Politics the sphere of love is depicted as an arena of power struggle. Several of the poems in You Are Happy and Two-Headed Poems explore the victimization of women. However, this paper examines that when considered through the prism of Kristevan psychoanalysis, Atwood’s exploration of human suffering and interpersonal conflict opens up a route to reconciliation and renewal. Power Politics presents circumstances wherein love and freedom lose their meaning, yet a sign of transformation emerges when the speaker renounces polarity and the logic of power. This, together with other poems in You Are Happy, displays a holism evident in Two-Headed Poems in which maternity is foregrounded as a primary means by which to transcend rigid social oppositions and conventions, and even species barrier. Here Atwood reviews the logic of power relations through an exploration of interactions between men and women, mothers and children, exploring the ways in which the dissolution of the human ego serve to collapse the boundaries between self and other.
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