this is a photograph of me

Well this day I decided to go with blogging on the poem this is a photograph of me by Margaret Atwood. There was much controversy over this poem this weak and it's still on my mind so here we are. On my blog, blogging about this poem. This poem wasn't my favourite but I still liked it. I feel that there are multiple interpretations of this here poem so I'll share two of them because I don't want to be 'inaccurate' or anything like that.

The First: This poem was written by Atwood to express her feelings of being overwhelmed and overlooked. It's easy to feel uncared about and unseen with as many people as there are in the world. Atwood just described this seen and was pretty much like oh yeah I'm there too but no one really cares. The first three stanzas consist of Atwood describing the landscape and things that aren't her then in parenthesis she adds the part about herself being in the landscape photo. She probably wasn't too happy about her life when she wrote this poem.

The Second: Not so deep. Irony really because she titled it this is a photograph of me which leads one to think that the poem will consist of Atwood describing a picture of herself and what she looks like. When you read on, you're caught off guard by the path the poem takes. It's almost as if she was saying, I want to tell you this story of when I died. Which is weird because she couldn't possibly tell a story of her own death a day later. Maybe it was her intention to just catch the readers by surprise.

For some reason I just didn't really think about this poem very deeply. It seemed like a poem to be read and caught off guard in a good way and not to be beaten to death with a hose. Not all poems have these deep meanings. I write poems, and not all of them have deep intellectual messages buried within them. They're just poems meant to be encountered and enjoyed.
Well no matter how you decide to interpret this poem, Its still a good poem.