Discussion Thread: "You Fit Into Me" and "Rite of Passage"

Margaret Atwood's "You Fit Into Me" and Sharon Olds' "Rite of Passage are two unnecessarily short poems falling into postmodernism literature. The poems classify into postmodern because of the stylistic and ideological making them relies on the conventional properties of literary piece-works. The two poems adopt some or all three properties of conventional writing in postmodernism literature that include the length, punctuation, and open endings. This paper will discuss the properties that classify the Atwood's and Olds' work into postmodernism.

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Analyzing the poem "You Fit Into Me" by Margaret Atwood shows that the narrator is in terms with the person she is addressing. Although the poem is extremely short, four lines to be precise, but has very concrete meaning to classify it into postmodernism. Later, there is a conflict between the two that is why the writer is saying about the fish hook, this shows postmodernism because there is a conflict because the fish hook is used to remove the fish from its natural habitat to where it's killed. In line with the poem, the fish hook becomes an eye opener, meaning the writer is now enlightened and not blinded by love as the person was initially.

In Sharon Olds' work, the poem is talking about the right of passage in which, the son of the writer is passing from childhood to adulthood. She demonstrates postmodernism in literature when the parent has organized a party at which they are to celebrate though the son is not actually happy. The poem uses punctuation to show how the party will comprise adults who have come to witness the ceremony plus the age-mates of the son. The son is described as a physically fit young man, by the poet. The guests challenge each other in a mockery way to see who can beat the other as they say, "I can beat you up a six," the guests indicate that they are really preparing a feast; this is indicated by the way they confusingly clear their throats. At the end of the poem, they relax and get down to playing war indicates that the feast has begun.

Finally, the two poems end abruptly without making no conclusive summary for the audience to get the author's final thought on the subject. The two poems leave the reader with imaginations on the next move of the story to draw their own conclusion. Opening the endings of the poems makes the text to be classified as postmodernism in literature

In response to my classmates' works, I have gained insight into the way they think about the text. For instance, classmate one perceived the double-sided perspective of on the vague poem from Margaret Atwood "You Fit Into Me" as positive and negative positions on ones sweet relationship that turns sour. In response to Sharon Olds' poem "Rite of Passage," my classmate gives in-depth meaning to the ongoing party where a mother on looks her son grow throughout the years making different developmental changes to be initiated into a fully grown man who is stronger and brutal. The response from classmate two, the text incorporates other texts from Margaret Atwood to make the effective perception of the substantial evidence on the elements of postmodernism literature. The response brings a clearer picture of the period of Sharon Olds' poem "Right of passage because she reveals that the time would be approximately twenty years.

Works Cited

Atwood, Margaret Power Politics, 1971

Sharon Olds, "Rite of Passage" In Alfred A. Knopf. Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002. Random House LLC: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004.