How does Atwood create a sense of the chaos in the human psyche? 

 

 

An: Atwood in her poem, ' Journey to the interior ' has created a sense of chaos in the human psyche. This sense is seen from the first line to the end of the poem through many images of nature presented in it. The poet says that the human psyche is so full f different thoughts that the mind has come to the state or chaos and confusion. 

The poet explores her mind as if she is exploring some country - side where there are mountains and endless barren lands and thin and tall trees have grown there. The poet describes this landscape a poor country which is unable to yield anything. This means that the poet wants to say that the human psyche though full of various thoughts is tangled in such a way that there is only chaos and confusion and there is no relativity in these thoughts.

 The poet is again very perplexed when in the second stanza she says that the human psyche is disorderly filled with different types of thoughts - innocent thoughts and cruel ones - but such disorder should not be there to disturb the human life ' your shoe among the brambles under the chair / where it shouldn't be ... ' Atwood says that every thought is so confusing and circles in such a way that the man is unable to distinguish between different thoughts as if every thought reaches to the same conclusion - Have I been / walking in circles ??