An ancient tradition; TPCASSTing and poetry, most especially the poetry of Margaret Atwood entitled 'In the Secular Night'

After TPCASSTing "In the Secular Night" by Margaret Atwood I discovered many things which I did not believe to be buried in her work. The first most noticeable thing was the relentless female voice. I believe that Ms. Atwood did this in order to describe her views on religion more passionately, and from a familiar perspective. The female voice eminating through the page is outstanding, but it is not only her need to be passionate and comfortable which drives her to use it so.

this could have been mysticism
or heresy. It isn't now.

Women have been low on the totem pole for a long time until recently, and the time she refers to with the above line sin the third stanza were about the same time. Her female voice here lendcs itself to this idea, and tied in with her need for passion and comfort in her own message it makes the voice completely necessary for the poem.

You may also notice the use of rebellion in the poem; the purple shake, the cigarette, and then the slightly less rebellious rebellion of retaing a secret vice, and eating with hands. This is lending to the final stanza as well. A sort of going-against-the-flow seems to be a recurring element in this poem. This is showing the redundancy of rebellion as well, kind of like Ms.Atwood saying to her rebellious readers "You aren't rebelling when you rebel".

I will not share everything, I would much rather leave it to your own devices but I am sure from what I have said that you can have a good jumping point in which to leap from so that you can swim in the deep blue words of Atwood.(haha postmodern essay moment; where prose becomes poetry and poetry prose)