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Poet: Margaret Atwood
Poem: You Fit Into Me
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Aug 5 2009
Comment 18 of 18, added on January 12th, 2010 at 6:35 AM.
Minimal usage and maximal effect
It is undoubtedly a wonderful poem.The reverse effect reminds me the line 'we look before and after and pine for what is not'.
The syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships discussed in the poem can be traced only through a careful reading from top to bottom, and from left to right.
The beauty of the poem lies in its opposites.
Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi from India
Comment 17 of 18, added on October 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 AM.
I have found that when someone enters your life very quickly it can be surprising, painful and hard to adjust. When this person is removed from your life you have a one sided and scared view of love and the world. I must convay pitty for thous of whome have felt such moments.
Morgan from United States
Comment 16 of 18, added on June 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 PM.
We talked about this peom today in class.
The exact meaning is
You fit into me = you belong to me / we go well together
Like a hook into an eye = this is referring to the hook of a piece of clothing which goed trough an iron eye, you knowe these hooks that are somethimes used in womens clothing, meaning they fir perfectly together and are made for each other.
A fishook = well it just means a fishhook
An open eye = this time it really is referring to a human eye, and this doesn't really give a nice effect to the poem the hook in the eye, and this is done on purpose to abruptly change the tone. The whole meaning of the poem is that not everything is as you expect it to be and love can really hurt even though it feels perfect, and also that love isn't always what you expect.
Isaa from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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It is undoubtedly a wonderful poem.The reverse effect reminds me the line 'we look before and after and pine for what is not'.
The syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships discussed in the poem can be traced only through a careful reading from top to bottom, and from left to right.
The beauty of the poem lies in its opposites.
Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi from India