Atwoods Tricks With Mirrors as a Declaration of Female Independence Es

Atwoods Tricks With Mirrors as a Declaration of Female libertyRelationships are complex things, with ever so-changing dynamics. Some traditional roles are evermore played in the constant search for balance between great(p) and taking in relationships. Women prolong historically and stereotypically played the role of sponsor in male-female romantic unions. In recent years the gender laws of relationships have been changing and evolving, just now even as recently as the mid-seventies and 1980s women have been restricted to the role of complacent giver in their relationships. Their freedom of thought and even private speech have been unaccepted to repress, however, and by broadening that communication, things have been forced into change. A perfect slip of this form of communication as an attempt to change the role-playing games of relationships is Margaret Atwoods 1974 poem, Tricks With Mirrors. Through the expend of poetic devices such as metaphor and tone in Tricks with M irrors, Atwood attempts to justify and break free from the restrictions of these traditional dynamics in relationships. In decompose I of the poem, Atwood uses a seemingly vague introduction to the subject matter, but gets straight to the point. Within five lines, she distinctly identifies her role as a mirror as she says, I enter with you / and become a mirror, (lines 4-5). She gives the natural depression that she is merely an target area in this relationship - she is a mirror through which her self-absorbed buffer may view himself. Mirrors / are the perfect lovers, she states (lines 6-7). They turn out a constant and loyal hypothecateion to whoever may stand in front of them. She is objectifying herself as she tells her lover to carry her carefully up the stairs and to ... ...She uses her tone of voice and the metaphors of mirrors and pools to make her case for freedom. Atwoods speaker is merely an object trapped in a relationship in which she serves only to reflect her lover to himself - and she no longer wishes to remain as such. She is seemingly ever patient in her endeavors, and continues to give throughout her quiet rebellion. All her lover ever does is take from her what he pleases - a faithful reflection of what he wishes to see in himself. Atwood defines these traditional roles in relationships while forming her opposition to the reputation of these unfair dynamics. Tricks with Mirrors is almost an anthem for the oppressed woman - a story that calmly explains a situation that needs to be changed. A deeper means may be found in the poem, however, as she conveys her detached sorrow - do not become a mirror, she tells us.