Interpretation of the Metaphors of Light/dark In Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood - A Feminist Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Margaret Atwood, a Canadian poet, award-winning writer, and a renowned feminist, wrote several poems dedicated to women and their struggles. In her poetry, Atwood reflects earnest thoughts on gender in relation to culture and female oppression. Her poems expose the silent and hidden operations of gender and confront its politics. She draws attention to the noxious dimensions of gender discrimination and attacks the narrow, dominant, social and aesthetic constructions of culture. In her poems, she often elucidates on women's social oppression and confinement by the dominant patriarchal sovereignty. This research paper uses the feminist approach in literary criticism as its framework. It examines how Atwood persistently employs the Metaphors of light/dark to express a sense of opposition to values and practices of the dominant patriarchal culture. Traditionally, the sun has represented vitality, the life force itself, whereas darkness or absence of sun has represented loss of that life, death. More importantly, the qualities associated with the light of the sun – energy, power and divinity, have traditionally been considered masculine. Such associations have in turn excluded women from the powerful, dazzling and masculine world of light and relegated women to a position of subordination in the realm of darkness. This research paper aims to scrutinize the metaphors of light/dark in selected poems by Margaret Atwood to reveal her rebelliousness and rejection to accept these traditional assumptions on women's position in the dominant patriarchal culture as well as her determination and affirmation for women's possibilities for change, growth, and development مارغريت أتوود ، شاعرة کندية ، وکاتبة حائزة على جوائزعديدة ، وناشطة نسوية مشهورة ، کتبت العديد من القصائد المخصصة للنساء ونضالاتهن. تعکس أتوود في شعرها الأفکار الجادة حول النوع الاجتماعي فيما يتعلق بالثقافة واضطهاد المرأة. کما تکشف قصائدها العمليات الصامتة والخفية للجندر وتواجه سياستها. وهي تلفت الانتباه إلى الأبعاد الضارة للتمييز بين الجنسين وتهاجم البنىة الثقافية الضيقة المهيمنة على الافکار الاجتماعية والجمالية. غالبًا ما تهتم أتودد في قصائدها بالاضطهاد الاجتماعي للمرأة والقيود المفروضة عليها من قبل السيادة الأبوية المهيمنة. تستخدم هذه الورقة البحثية النهج النسوي في النقد الأدبي کإطار لها. وذلک ليدرس کيف توظف أتوود بإصرار استعارات الضوء / الظلام للتعبير عن إحساسها بالتعارض مع قيم وممارسات الثقافة الأبوية السائدة. فتقليديا ، تمثل الشمس الحيوية ، قوة الحياة نفسها ، في حين أن الظلام أو غياب الشمس يمثل فقدان تلک الحياة ، او الموت. والأهم من ذلک ، أن الصفات المرتبطة بنور الشمس - الطاقة والقوة والإلهية ، اعتُبرت تقليديًا ايضا صفات ذکورية. وقد استبعدت مثل هذه الثقافة الأبوية بدورها النساء من عالم النور القوي والمذهل والذکوري وأبعدت المرأة إلى موقع التبعية والخضوع في عالم الظلام. تهدف هذه الورقة البحثية إلى دراسة استعارات الضوء / الظلام في قصائد مختارة لمارجريت أتوود للکشف عن تمردها ورفضها لقبول هذه الافتراضات التقليدية حول مکانة المرأة في الثقافة الأبوية السائدة وکذلک تصميمها وتأکيدها على امکانيات المرأة للتغيير والنمو والتنمية.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".