Dark Stories: Poet-Audience Relations and the Journey Underground in Margaret Atwood’s The Door (original) (raw)

Abstract

Examining several poems in Margaret Atwood’s The Door, I argue that her persistent image of descent into the dark underworld of the past and the unseen – a metaphor for the writing process as well as subjectivity itself – problematizes the assumption that there can be a clear distinction between the writer and the audience; poets, like all people, engage in continuous negotiation with unseen times and places.

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