Margaret Atwood Friday

In Margaret Atwood’s poem February she uses imagery, metaphor and tone to display her distasteful feelings towards the month known for lovers. February it is not just a cold winter month, but also the month to display romantical relationships. In Margaret Atwood’s mind the month of February brings thoughts of loneliness and she stresses the question if love will ever cross her path. Margaret’s theme throughout this poem is a very noticeable dark scene of non-existent love that dampens her mind throughout every hour of the day. This poem is not a typical up lifting love story but more like an aspect of what its like to be cold and lonely in February. Margaret Atwood’s use of imagery in February is that it’s the month “with a skewered heart in the centre” in a representational form this statement displays a harsh image of an arrow going through a heart. For Margaret Atwood February is a month that reminds her that her only companion is her pet cat who keeps her warm in the early mornings. February, the month of …show more content…
Margaret Atwood describes people falling in love and having sexual relations because it is cold and bitter in the month of “love”. Her bitter attitude towards love in general specifically a “skewered heart” is setting a dreary and hateful tone throughout the entire poem. Nothing is specifically described as beautiful and happy the way that love is typically represented as because the narrator unfortunately is alone during the month of love. Thoughts like the fact if we primal humans were sensible we would castrate ourselves or just eat our children, show her hate for anything involving romance. The tone of loneliness is highlighted especially when she states that “February, a month of despair”. Through tone she is able to bring the reader into her non-existent love story. She allows her readers who are in the same situation as her to connect on a level of distaste for the month known for