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Margaret Atwood - Habitation

Marriage is not 
a house or even a tent 

it is before that, and colder: 

The edge of the forest, the edge 
of the desert 
        the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat 
outside, eating popcorn 

where painfully and with wonder 
at having survived even 
this far 

we are learning to make fire

Added: on November 26th, 2005 at 7:22 PM | Viewed: 9014 times | Comments (7)


Habitation - Comments and Information

Poet: Margaret Atwood
Poem: Habitation

Comment 7 of 7, added on March 8th, 2009 at 10:46 AM.

I agree, there's something missing in the poem. I have a book containing a copy of habitation and the receding edge of glacier was there. Anyway, this poem is really realistic for me. it only showed and expressed how marriage really is. marriage is not a game, not a play,rather, a very critical, serious, crucial and unstable condition that calls for a lot of effort and attention to work it out.

aisee from Philippines
Comment 6 of 7, added on March 8th, 2009 at 3:05 AM.

I really love the poem. I agree of the things being told. During our class, I encounter this poem.
It is true that "Marriage is not a house nor even a tent." That in entering a marriage life is not just building a house. Like eating popcorn? Oh it's not like that. They are many things to think and to consider. There are happiness and even hardships. It can never be an easy thing. Therefore, marriage life is a serious affair.

Christin Joy Igos from Philippines
Comment 5 of 7, added on November 26th, 2005 at 7:22 PM.

I love the poem amd it explains itself. Marriage is hard.

Tira from United States

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