Against Still Life In the poem Against Still Life, poet Margaret Atwood fascinates us by weaving her words into descriptive feelings we can all relate too, especially women. Atwood is a well known poet and novelist who has a certain way of grabbing the attention of the reader and throwing the reader’s thoughts around without her even realizing it. In Against Still Life for example, Atwood opens her poem with an orange, nothing more …showed first 75 words of 1254 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1254 total…of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; our private dinosaurs; the first woman”(Muller 256). These sorts of answers could only be explained and interpreted through several conversations through life. And even then, the answers given to Atwood’s questions might not be understood and she would be left off right where she left off, with no true understanding at all. But she doesn’t care, she wants to know everything from the beginning.