Margaret Atwood News, Pictures & Buzz

Paris Agreement 5-Year Anniversary - Virtual conversation on Climate Change: "Paris to Glasgow: from knowledge to action", with Margaret Atwood, Michael Sabia, David Suzuki and Sheila Watt-Cloutier - Dec. 9, 7PM (EST)  Canada NewsWire

Don Rogers: End of world for Christmas  Sierra Sun

Your Weekend Planner Dec 4: Diljit vs Kangana on Twitter, Nolan drops Tenet  India Today

How to buy books on a budget in Karachi  SAMAA

Books to Read and Reread  The New York Times

Poetry? It's the new pop: The best books for gifting those who love rhymes this Christmas  Daily Mail

International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Nov. 28  Vancouver Sun

10 Shows To Watch If You Like Alias Grace (According To Reddit & More)  Screen Rant

Historic Effort To 'End Blindness' Marks Major Milestone With Leading Scientists Recognized For Pioneering Work At VIP Ceremony Featuring Tribute To Ruth Bader Ginsburg  Yahoo Finance

FIGHTING BACK: A collective effort will lower rates of family violence  Tasmania Examiner

Speaking of Books — What Makes a Book a Classic  Garden City News

The Handmaid's Tale: making a drama out of a crisis  UN News

Women's Executive Network Canada Honours Assante Advisor Tina Tehranchian with Intact Professional Award  Business Wire

Banville criticised by fellow Booker winner for saying he despises ‘woke’ movement  The Irish Times

Melania Trump’s normal Christmas decorations reveal her secret  The Washington Post

AARP Bulletin Exclusive: 'AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: Nursing Homes and the Pandemic'  PRNewswire

Columbia Basin Herald  Columbia Basin Herald

The Booker Prize turns a new page  McGill Tribune

Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention  The Associated Press

Literacy Partners Honors Toni Morrison With Virtual Reading  WWD

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Any influences from Atwood's childhood with the main protagonist from her novel "Oryx and Crake"

Is the family on the rocks a portrayal of American tourists? The poet would like tourists to see her country's mountains and lakes, rather than the unrealistic commercial view some Americans portray (of Canada)? Did the publishing of this poem weaken the Americans ties with Canadians? Just a couple of questions I had after reading the poem. Canadians also have stereotypes on Americans, right?

Postcards by Margaret Atwood I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand. What we have are the usual fractured coke bottles and the smell of backed-up drains, too sweet, like a mango on the verge of rot, which we have also. The air clear sweat, mosquitoes & their tracks; birds & elusive. Time comes in waves here, a sickness, one day after the other rolling on; I move up, it's called awake, then down into the uneasy nights but never forward. The roosters crow for hours before dawn, and a prodded child howls & howls on the pocked road to school. In the hold with the baggage there are two prisoners, their heads shaved by bayonets, & ten crates of queasy chicks. Each spring there's race of cripples, from the store to the church. This is the sort of junk I carry with me; and a clipping about democracy from the local paper. Outside the window they're building the damn hotel, nail by nail, someone's crumbling dream. A universe that includes you can't be all bad, but does it? At this distance you're a mirage, a glossy image fixed in the posture of the last time I saw you. Turn you over, there's the place for the address. Wish you were here. Love comes in waves like the ocean, a sickness which goes on & on, a hollow cave in the head, filling & pounding, a kicked ear. I love this poem. I'm going to write my poetry assessment commentary on it, but I have a few questions... In the last two lines of the first stanza, what does "The air clear sweat, mosquitoes & their tracks; birds & elusive" mean? And why does Atwood use & signs instead of the actual word "and"? In the second stanza, I don't understand the whole "In the hold with the baggage there are two prisoners, their heads shaved by bayonets, & ten crates of queasy chicks. Each spring there's a race of cripples, from the store to the church" part.... And lastly, in the third stanza, what does the hotel represent? Thank you ^^

the question I need to answer is : with reference to the poem, discuss the poet's use of imagery to portray the aging process. answer this question with quotes. thank and please!