The Poem 'Spelling' by Margaret Atwood

Spelling

By Margaret Atwood

 

My daughter plays on the floor
with plastic letters,
red, blue & hard yellow,
learning how to spell,
spelling,
how to make spells.

I wonder how many women
denied themselves daughters,
closed themselves in rooms,
drew the curtains
so they could mainline words.

A child is not a poem,
a poem is not a child.
there is no either/or.
However.

I return to the story
of the woman caught in the war
& in labour, her thighs tied
together by the enemy
so she could not give birth.

Ancestress: the burning witch,
her mouth covered by leather
to strangle words.

A word after a word
after a word is power.

At the point where language falls away
from the hot bones, at the point
where the rock breaks open and darkness
flows out of it like blood, at
the melting point of granite
when the bones know
they are hollow & the word
splits & doubles & speaks
the truth & the body
itself becomes a mouth.

This is a metaphor.

How do you learn to spell?
Blood, sky & the sun,
your own name first,
your first naming, your first name,
your first word.

Introduction

 This poem investigates the issue of female persecution and shows ladies' composition as instrumental in breaking the man centric wrist bindings of pressure and enslavement. It features the hardships that a lady needs to go through to secure herself as an effective essayist. This sonnet starts with a guiltless demonstration. A kid plays with the plastic letters of the letters in order. This picture is subsequently different to the lady abused who should be made to understand that she is the main individual in her life. This poem shows up in Ten Stories The storyteller of the sonnet looks on her parenthood.

Summery

 Spelling by Margaret Atwood isn't a poem pretty much woman's rights. It is likewise an investigation into the profundities of human cognizance and dejection. Most importantly, her verse might expect to finish up how a lady's natural construction can be utilized against her, The sonnet Spelling is a philosophical perception of how ladies are dealt with scholastically. The principal center is training for ladies. 'Spelling' comprises of nine refrains which are of various length. This may likewise recommend that all ladies are not regardless albeit the male orientation is. The sonnet has been written in free section. She utilizes this to underline the importance of the beginning and end of a sentence. The beautiful voice of the sonnet is an informed mother watching her girl play on the floor with plastic letters. Red, blue and yellow are the essential tones utilized. They show how youthful the girl is. It likewise becomes obvious how early these young ladies start instruction. The main line of the sonnet presents numerous parts of culture and ladies 's lives. The reference to 'spell'/'spelling/'how to make spells' shows the way that the girl is figuring out how to spell. She then, at that point, learns the right approach to spelling words.

 Spells is a reference to what's to come. It might have likewise been a reference to black magic or how verse is the most elevated type of language. Spells has a two sided connotation. It might have been an idea of black magic and the instruction of the little girl. Atwood involves spelling as confirmation of the force of words and she portrays the exploitation of the feebleness of ladies without the utilization of language. In the sonnet Atwood says that 'A youngster isn't a sonnet/a sonnet isn't a kid. Both a sonnet and a youngster must be imagined in the belly of a lady. Anyway a lady has a decision about the introduction of a sonnet. Be that as it may, on account of a youngster, they must choose between limited options. Thighs tied is a way to which ladies can be exposed to mistreatment. This kind of misuse should be possible just to a lady. Without proficiency the psyche isn't anything. Words give ladies more power, the words become harming for men.