Barn Margaret
Posted in Bed Comforter Sets on 01/09/2004 10:40 pm by admin
Game After Supper (Poem) – Meaning?
Does anyone know what the poem called Game After Supper by Margaret Atwood mean
Poem:
This is before electricity,
it is when there were porches.
On the sagging porch an old man
is rocking. The porch is wooden,
the house is wooden and grey;
in the living room which smells of
smoke and mildew, soon
the woman will light the kerosene lamp.
There is a barn but I am not in the barn;
there is an orchard too, gone bad,
its apples like soft cork
but I am not there either.
I am hiding in the long grass
with my two dead cousins,
the membrane grown already
across their throats.
We hear crickets and our own hearts
close to our ears;
though we giggle, we are afraid.
From the shadows around
the corner of the house
a tall man is coming to find us:
He will be an uncle,
if we are lucky.
It would appear the poem is recollecting a moment in the poet’s past when she was on a farm/orchard owned probably by a neighbor too old to harvest the crop. They were probably doing silly, childish things and hope that the man coming their way is their uncle and not the owner of the property…you’ll notice the poem’s title, “game after supper”, implies the children where playing some sort of game…and knowing the nature of children, there was probably some amount of mischief involved.
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