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The poem “Bored” by Margaret Atwood, is a poem that tells many different things in each line. It is a poem that evokes many different feelings in me such as feelings of boredom, happiness and sadness. This poem has some ambiguous meanings to me and maybe to the writer as well. “bored” is a poem that about boredom of course but also about learning, paying attention, and most of all about love and loss. In this paper I will attempt to show you just exactly how I have come by my conclusions of this poem and give you examples of why. I will discuss the tone, diction; imagery as well as other aspects that I think are significant to this poem. The first thing I am going to discuss about the poem “bored” by Margaret Atwood, is the tone. After reading this poem several times I think that the writer is reminiscing. The writer is thinking about time she spent with a loved one, probably her father, or grandfather. Her reminiscent leaves me to believe that the tone changes throughout the poem. At first the tone is set as the reader might expect it to be based on the title, “bored”, so the poem is that of a bored person. For example lines (1-8) all those times I was bored out of my mind. “holding the log while …show more content…
Holding the string while he measured, boards, distances between things, or pounded stakes into the ground, for rows and rows of lettuces and beets, which I then (bored) weeded”. Then as you continue to read on, the

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