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- Title
Transformation through storytelling in Margaret Atwood's latest poetry.
- Authors
D'Antonio, Carla Scarano
- Abstract
In her latest poetry, Margaret Atwood explores the passing of time in her personal life and from a global perspective. The mortal human condition is investigated in our encounter with suffering and death. The writer embarks on a voyage into the underworld, where they are transformed in a confrontation with death and acquire knowledge and wisdom. This transformation is shared in language; that is, through storytelling. Accepting the dark side is crucial to understanding the duality of our world, where good and evil coexist. The protagonist feels alive and renewed despite the difficulties of ageing and the cruelties of our world. This regeneration occurs in the imagination and offers possible alternative views in a shape-shifting mode that does not give definite answers and is continuously changing. The descent into the underworld is therefore a renewal in art – that is, in poetry and storytelling – it creates life and allows survival.
- Subjects
ATWOOD, Margaret, 1939-; STORYTELLING; POETRY (Literary form); GOOD &; evil; IMAGINATION
- Publication
British Journal of Canadian Studies, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0269-9222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/bjcs.2023.3