The Poem A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood, Summery, Analysis

A Sad Child

By  Margaret Atwood 

Poem

You're sad because you're sad.

 It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

 Go see a shrink or take a pill,

 or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll

 you need to sleep.

 

 Well , all children are sad

 but some get over it.

 Count your blessings. Better than that,

 buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.

 Take up dancing to forget.

 

 Forget what?

Your sadness , your shadow,

 whatever it was that was done to you

the day of the lawn party

when you came inside flushed with the sun,

 your mouth sulky with sugar,

 in your new dress with the ribbon

 and the ice - cream smear,

 and said to yourself in the bathroom,

 I am not the favorite child.

 

 My darling , when it comes

 right down to it

 and the light fails and the fog rolls in

 and you're trapped in your overturned body

 under a blanket or burning car,

 and the red flame is seeping out of you

 and igniting the tarmac beside your head

 or else the floor, or else the pillow,

 none of us is;

 or else we all are.

 

 

About the poet

 Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poetess, writer,She was brought into the world on November 18.1939. She is a victor of the Arthur Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for writing. She has a few distinctions and grants surprisingly She I most popular for her work as a writer. She has likewise distributed fifteen books of verse Many of her sonnets have been motivated by fantasies and fantasies, which have intrigued her since the beginning. She was brought into the world in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She spent quite a bit of her young life in the boondocks of northern Que honey bee and going this way and that between. She turned into an insatiable peruser of writing. She started composition at six years old. She understood she needed to compose expertly when she was sixteen. In 1957, she started learning at Victoria College in the college of Toronto, where she distributed sonnets and articles in Victorian, the school abstract diary. She graduated in 1961 with BA. in English Honors. She acquired her certificate in M.A. from Radcliffe College in 1962 and sought after additional alumni learns at Harvard University for a long time however didn't complete her exposition "The English Metaphysical Romance. She has instructed at the college of British Columbia (1965). In 2012, she got a privileged level of Doctor of Literature (honoris causa).

On November 16, she got a privileged degree from the Royal Military of Canada, Her verse centers around the subject of character. She is like Neruda and Walcott. There is a style and power in Atwood's verse. She is exact in depicting her topic She seldom recounts a story. She performs mental change of way of life as she takes a gander at the Canadian trailblazers, the uprooted American Indians, the creatures in the woodlands the savage land pounded by unfavorable weather patterns and obviously at the changing jobs of ladies. The nation remains in as an illustration for every one of them. She is most keen on the ideas of mindfulness and hesitance, and the manners by which they are shown through existence.

 

Introduction

 

Margaret Atwood attempts to make sense of a portion of current realities about human existence. She discusses ladies who are exposed to abuse because of men. Her sonnets contain a secret message. 'A Sad Child' is a moving sonnet. It is brimming with feelings. It spins round the tale of a kid. The youngster is miserable. Atwood attempts to make sense of the purpose for the youngster's bitterness. This makes the sonnet lucid. Everybody feels inquisitive to peruse this sonnet. She brings up that all individuals on the planet are miserable at one time or the other. Many might want to know why one is miserable at one time or the other.

 

Brief Summery

 

Cherished recollections incredibly affect the human character. These recollections can influence the present as well as the eventual fate of an individual. A Sad Child' attempts to make sense of what these recollections can mean for life. A kid is shown miserable in this sonnet however everybody starts to ink on the reason for his trouble. Then the writer lets the kid know that the past thing at the forefront of one's thoughts will be distress. No one at any point thinks what has occurred before the beginning of ediness Everyone needs to live. The truth of the matter is that everybody needs to kick the bucket at some point or another. t of everybody is an incredible balancer. Everyone is dependent upon death sometime.

 

Analysis

 

 According to in the sonnet, A Sad Child, Atwood, " You're miserable on the grounds that you're miserable", on line 1, which proposes presence of the subject of misery. On line 2, Atwood claims the downturn being a component old enough - " It's the age. It's compound", which gives a thought of the subject of development present in the sonnet. Atwood utilizes comparison to look at between embracing trouble and embracing a toy - "embrace your bitterness like an eyeless doll", and that means to confront or consider misery as a reality and adapt to it instead of staying away from it. For instance, Atwood says , " My sweetheart, all things considered ", which recommends a relaxed discourse of the essayist and legitimizes the basic phrasing fundamental for the consideration and the comprehension of the peruser. Besides, Atwood utilizes symbolism - " in your new dress with the strip and the frozen yogurt smear, " permitting the perusers to envision that the high school got her dress grimy with frozen yogurt and can likewise envision her miserable face.

 I think Atwood is discussing herself when she was a young person. Straightforward word usage, comparison and the symbolism truly helped me in understanding how terrible the teen would have felt from picturing her miserable face with grimy dress - sensation of disgrace - and furthermore breaking down how it might have been forestalled - by taking into account it as a reality that will accompany you until the end of your life.

 

            I can associate myself to the sonnet; I frequently feel discouraged upon tiny things. For instance, one of my companions overlooked me and afterward when I posed him an inquiry , he blew up and shouted at me; I felt frightfully segregated and an acknowledgment - that nobody loves me - until the end of the day and it was hard to not consider it. I was unable to rest that evening. Such sensations of melancholy are harsh and deplorable - " and the red fire is leaking out of you", expressed on line 26, which proposes comparable sensations of Atwood as mine. Along these lines, I can associate with Atwood because of sadness being general and moving past with it is the arrangement.

 

 Atwood discusses the issue of sorrow amongst teens and offers guidance of how to stay away from it or simply face it. At focuses, Atwood anticipates utilizing realism to manage gloom - " Buy a cap. Purchase a coat or pet." on line 9; She likewise notices of simply captivating into exercises - with physical and mental activity - to dispose of gloom - " Take up moving to neglect " on line 10. The sonnet would be composed to empower the sad youth and give them trust as they are the eventual fate of the Earth - to forestall self-destructive considerations amongst young people either because of social, profound or scholastic issues. The reason for the sonnet is to mindful young people of approaches to acquiring joy and escaping bitterness and furthermore that they are not by any means the only ones in misery - its widespread.

 

  I consent to the philosophy of Atwood as melancholy is widespread - "not a single one of us is; or probably we as a whole are. " - and that implies us all are discouraged or nobody of us is. Sorrow is vital to move past with amongst teens as it is a reality. Trouble is the kin of satisfaction and follows everything along. I consent to Atwood's concept of drawing in yourself into exercises to occupy yourself from trouble. In the event that we focus on something particular like misery, we will simply be mulling over everything except assuming we redirect our concentration, we can get through the bitterness. Atwood is attempting to communicate something specific of not confining yourself because of misery as everybody in this world is discouraged yet the greater part of them simply find an exit from it. Atwood's endeavor to assist youth with emerging from misery is an extraordinary one that will keep ages inspired.