Practical Critisism

The practical Critisism is a "point of view", that states, about a text, that the context, the author, and all the things "surrounding" the text aren't important for understanding the text, and that all the answers are in it.

I am goint to analyze the poem "you fit into me", Margaret Atwood using this way of thinking:

You fit into me

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
A fish hook
An open eye.

But I am going to do so, ansering the questions on the CC.


- What is the relationship between the title and the rest of the poem?
The title refers more to the human part of the poem, you can say that what fits into me is a person, maybe a woman, while the poem describes using metaphors, what the title means.

- What words, if any, need to be defined?
Theese are the words that are in the metaphors, eye and hook. I think this just for the same reason, the words doesnt mean "that", they mean other thing as they are parts of a metaphor.


- What relations do you see among any words in the poem?
The author states a fish hook and an eye.Hook, is one thing, eye is other, but hookeye is other, thats the metaphor that makes the poem important.

- What are the various connotative meaning of the words in the poem? Do you see various shades of meaning help establish relationships or patterns in the text?
He plays a lot changing the meanings of hook and eye, just as I stated in the previous question.

- What symbols, images or figures of speech are used? What is the relationship between them?
The poem creates us a meaning for eye and for hook, wich is changed at the end. Thats what the author plays with.


- What elements of rhyme, meter or pattern can you discuss?
This poem has no defined structure, no number of syllables in each line, no rhyme... it's a free poem.


- What is the tone of the poem?
I think is love, because if she says "you fit me", is because she loves "him".

- What tensions, ambiguities or paradoxes arise within the poem?
"In the word Hook and eye. First, we imagine two people in love, but then the meaning is pain.

- What do you believe the chief paradox or irony is in the text?
Pain, shows the way of love. At the begining is something fun and good, but then it turns into a nightmare sometimes.

- How do all of the elements of the poem support and develop the primary paradox or irony?
The metaphor, or irony that surrounds all the poem is supported by this ambiguity of the terms hook and eye.

Here is this same explanation into a voice thread:
https://voicethread.com/share/2992127/