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Person response

I like this poem because it speaks about child sexual abuse and how it would affect the child later. It speaks how our society is also trapped in our terror of not being able to forgive and let go of what happened, and instead blame and use various types of mechanisms of ignoring the victim’s needs of support. Also, I liked how this poem talks about failure and how to face it. For instance, the society we all have to be great, happy, but life is also sadness and a person could feel a failure as a horrible moment(flames in the poem). So from this poem, Atwood is trying to show us that we have to find the courage for us to move on. And we should feel sadness as a part of our life and never see it as a bad thing, “Life is unfair”.

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A Sad Child By Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet. Take up dancing to forget. Forget what? Your sadness, your shadow, whatever it was that was done to you the day of the lawn party when you came inside flushed with the sun, your mouth sulky with sugar, in your new dress with the ribbon and the ice-cream smear, and said to yourself in the bathroom, I am not the favorite child. My darling, when it comes right down to it and the light fails and the fog rolls in and you're trapped in your overturned body under a blanket or burning car, and the red flame is seeping out of you and igniting the tarmac beside your head or else the floor, or else the pillow, none of us is; or else we all are.

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PUBLISHED WORKS

Novels:

The Edible Woman; McClelland & Stewart, 1969; Andre Deutsch, 1969; Atlantic Little-Brown, 1970.

Surfacing; McClelland & Stewart, 1972; Andre Deutsch, 1973; Simon & Schuster, 1973.

Lady Oracle; McClelland & Stewart, Simon & Schuster, Deutsch, 1976.

Life Before Man; McClelland & Stewart, 1979; Simon & Schuster, Cape, 1980.

Bodily Harm; McClelland & Stewart, 1981; Simon & Schuster, Cape, 1981.

The Handmaid’s Tale; McClelland & Stewart, Houghton Mifflin, 1985; Cape, 1985.

Cat’s Eye; McClelland & Stewart, 1988; Doubleday, 1989; Bloomsbury, 1989.

The Robber Bride; McClelland & Stewart, 1993; Bloomsbury, 1993; Doubleday, 1993.

Alias Grace; McClelland & Stewart, 1996; Bloomsbury, 1996; Doubleday, 1996.

The Blind Assassin; McClelland & Stewart, 2000; Bloomsbury, 2000; Doubleday, 2000.

Oryx and Crake; McClelland & Stewart, 2003; Bloomsbury, 2003; Doubleday, 2003.

The Penelopiad; Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2005; Canongate, 2005.

The Year of the Flood; McClelland & Stewart, 2009; Bloomsbury, 2009; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009.

MaddAddam; McClelland & Stewart, 2013; Bloomsbury, 2013; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2013.

The Heart Goes Last; McClelland & Stewart, 2015; Bloomsbury, 2015; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.

Hag-Seed, (The Tempest revisited, Hogarth Shakespeare Project) Hogarth/Penguin/Random, 2016

Short Fiction:

Dancing Girls; McClelland & Stewart, S&S, 1977; Cape, 1979.

Murder in the Dark; Coach House Press, 1983.

Bluebeard’s Egg; McClelland & Stewart, 1983; Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Wilderness Tips; McClelland & Stewart, 1991; Doubleday, 1991; Bloomsbury, 1991.

Good Bones; Coach House Press, 1992; Bloomsbury, 1992; Doubleday, 1994.

The Tent; McClelland & Stewart, 2006; Bloomsbury, 2006; Doubleday, 2006.

Moral Disorder; McClelland & Stewart, 2006; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006; Bloomsbury, 2006.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, McClelland & Stewart, 2014; Bloomsbury, 2014; Nan Talese / Doubleday, 2014

Children’s Books:

Up in the Tree; McClelland & Stewart, 1978.

Anna’s Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse); James Lorimer & Co., 1980.

For the Birds; Douglas & McIntyre, 1990.

Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut; Key Porter, 1995; Workman Publishing, 1995.

Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes; Key Porter, 2003; Bloomsbury, 2003.

Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda; Key Porter, 2004; Bloomsbury, 2004.

Up in the Tree (facsimile reprint); Groundwood Books, 2006.

Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery; McArthur & Co., 2011.

Graphic Novels:

Angel Catbird, Dark Horse, 2016

Poetry:

The Circle Game; Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1964; Contact Press, 1966; Anansi, 1967.

The Animals in That Country; Oxford University Press, 1969; Atlantic Little-Brown, 1968.

The Journals of Susanna Moodie; Oxford, 1970 illus. by Margaret Atwood; illus. by Charlie Pachter, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1997.

Procedures for Underground; Oxford, 1970; Atlantic Little-Brown, 1970.

Power Politics; Anansi, 1971; Harper & Row, 1973.

You Are Happy; Oxford, 1974; Harper & Row, 1975.

Selected Poems; Oxford, 1976; Simon & Schuster, 1978.

Selected Poems, 1965-1975; Houghton Mifflin, Oxford, 1976.

Two-Headed Poems; Oxford, 1978.

True Stories; Oxford, 1981.

Interlunar; Oxford, 1984.

Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986; Oxford, 1986; Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Selected Poems 1966-1984; Oxford University Press, 1990.

Margaret Atwood Poems 1976-1986; Virago Press Limited, 1991.

Morning in the Burned House; McClelland & Stewart, 1995; Houghton Mifflin, 1995, Virago Press, 1995.

Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995; Virago, 1998.

The Door; McClelland & Stewart, 2007; Houghton Mifflin 2007; Virago 2007.

Non-Fiction:

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature; Anansi, 1972. Reprinted 2012.

Days of the Rebels 1815-1840; Toronto, Natural Science of Canada, 1977.

Second Words: Selected Critical Prose; Anansi, 1982.

Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature; Oxford University Press, 1995.

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing; Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004; Anansi, 2004.

Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing; Virago, 2005.

Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005; Carroll & Graf, 2005.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth; Anansi, 2008.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination; Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2011; Virago, 2011; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2011.

Small Press Editions:

Poetry:

Double Persephone; Hawkshead Press, 1961; pamphlet.

Kaleidoscopes Baroque: a poem; Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1965.

Talismans for Children; Crankbrook Academy of Art, 1965.

Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein; Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1966.

Marsh, Hawk; Dreadnaught, 1977.

Notes Towards a Poem that Can Never be Written; Salamader Press, 1981.

Snake Poems; Salamander Press, 1983.

Fiction:

Encounters with the Element Man; Concord, New Hampshire, Ewert, 1982.

Unearthing Suite; Grand Union Press, 1983.

Bottle; Hay Festival, 2004.

I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth; The Walrus / Coach House Press, 2012.

Television Scripts:

“The Servant Girl”, CBC, 1974.

“Snowbird”, 1981.

“Heaven on Earth” (with Peter Pearson), 1986.

Radio Scripts:

“The Trumpets of Summer”, CBC Radio, 1964.

Recordings:

“The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood”, Caedmon, 1977.

“Margaret Atwood reads from The Handmaid’s Tale”, Caedmon, 1985.

“Margaret Atwood reads Unearthing Suite”, American Audio Prose Library, 1985.

Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Bloomsbury, 2006.

“Margaret Atwood reads from The Door”, Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Edited:

The Best American Short Stories (with Shannon Ravenel); Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

The Canlit Foodbook; Totem Books (Collins Publishers), 1987.

The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English; Oxford University Press, 1982.

The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (with Robert Weaver); Oxford University Press, 1986.

The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (with Robert Weaver); Oxford University Press, 1995.

Theatre:

The Penelopiad – The Play; Produced by NAC / RSC; Script by Faber & Faber, 2007.

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BIOGRAPHY

Margret Atwood is a Canadian writer born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Atwood is one of Canada's major contemporary authors. Atwood's writing is noted for its careful craftsmanship and precision of language. Her stories have a Canadian approach, especially to the wilderness and she writes creative nonfiction and memoir, as well as historical, speculative, science, and dystopian fiction. She writes through a feminist perspective, and her typical heroine is the modern urban woman. Atwood received two Governor General's awards, a Giller Prize, a Man Booker Prize and numerous other awards and accolades. She is also a companion of the Order of Canada, Margaret Atwood is among the most prolific and celebrated writers in Canadian history.

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MARGARET ATWOOD