Analysis Of You Fit Into Me By Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” is remarkable in just how many Post-Modern devices are found in only four lines of poetry. Altogether, Atwood’s poem instantly seizes a reader’s attention with its economy of words, and peculiar structure. Noticeably, the two simplistic looking verses, zero punctuation, lack of capital letters, and bracketed title invite closer inspection. The unusual length, and form are true to Post-Modernism’s desire to bring awareness to the prose. In that regard, Atwood calculatedly triggers the reader awareness of the poem’s odd form, but also provokes a closer look at what’s being said. The figurative language is split with a break between the stanzas, to distort the readers interpretation of the first two lines. The