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The poet that I thought I'd least be like was Margaret Atwood. Of course, that was before I researched about Silvia Plath and her dark and sorrowful years of life which led to a horrible suicide in her oven (that freaked me out a bit!). The reason why I thought I'd least be like Atwood was because my first impressions of Atwood was seeing a very powerful woman who knew what she believed in and was going to fight for everything she saw wrong in her eyes and the rest of the female population. Then again, of course she would do these things, she was a feminist and activist! Initially, I didn't see myself like her, strong and lively with words. However, that's where I got stuck in between Emily Dickinson and Atwood. Like Emily Dickinson, I am the shy, not so much the out-going type of person. Yet, I'm also like Atwood in which I can be very open and straight up real with what I want to personalize and express in terms of my thoughts and convictions. It's one thing to be a hermit, but it's another to lose the shell.
Atwood writes her work with strong individual protagonists who are able to admit their wrongs and work towards their rights. The characters in her stories and poems add to the unlimited stories that all tell different narratives but tie into one main idea. And I think that's fascinating. I think it's fascinating how feminism can be expressed; how much it can exceed our thoughts about contemporary issues. In the same way, as much as I admire her open-ended mind and love for defiance, there are times when I too have strong feelings about something and I just need to get them out of me. Often times, instead of screaming into a pillow or rampaging through my door, I'm the type of person to take all my anger out on paper. There, I would write (or even type most of the time) frantically trying to get every little and last detail formulating in my tiny cranium from whatever situation that had occurred. It's actually quite sad sometimes, having to share my anger and thoughts with myself. Then again, there's God and then this seg-ways to a faith-based issue, but that's for later days.
Atwood is a powerful writer who writes profound works. Although there are some things that I disagree with all of this feminism and whatnot, I believe that Atwood's sense of overpowering what is wrong and speaking up about what she believes in is just one single aspect of me in which we have similarities.