You Fit Into Me

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


This is a poem by Margaret Atwood, based in the New criticism ideology I will answer a quiestionary about the text.


1)What is the relationship beetwen the title and the rest of the poem?


The title tell us an affirmation, the text try to explain it more by a comparison

Hook

2)What words, if any, need to be defined?


Hook: Is what is used to catch the fish.

Hook-and-eye

Hook-and-eye closure: Is a method of fastening garments together








3)What relationships do you see among any words in the poem?


There is a relationship between 4 words. First pair: Hook. It first refer to a hook as part of the Hook-and-eye. But then it refers to hook as a fishing instrument.
And the second pair: Eye. First it refers to an eye as the complemente of a hook in a Hook-and-eye. But later it says "an open eye", so it is pretty ambiguous.


4)What are the various connotative meanings of the words in the poem? Do these various shades of meaning help establish relationships or patterns in the text?


The text plays with the meaning of the words in the context, first as a Hook-and-Eye and then as a hook in an eye. This only make us wonder what is it really trying to say, it doesn't help at all for the comprehension of the text. But this is obiously what the text wanted to create, confusion.


5)What symbols, images or figures og speech are used? What is the relationshipe between them?


The two symbols created are a hook-and-eye in the first 2 lines, and then throw a comparison the text says us that the real meaning was a hook and an eye. The only relationship between those two frases is that they are pronounced and written the same.


6)What elements of rhyme, meter or pattern can you discuss?


The poem has absolutely no rhyme and the pattern of syllables is not constant.


7)What is the tone of the poem?


The tone is of pesimism, pain and anger.


8)From what point of view is the content of the poem being told?


It is in first person. This character has been in love, but then he or she suffers and does a very cold and ironic comparison


9)What tensions, ambiguities or paradoxes arise within the poem?


In the poem is a clearly ambiguity and a paradox, because we don't know if she means a hook-and-eye or a hook in an eye. This cause confusion and tension.


10)What do you believe the chief paradox or irony is in the text?


The main paradox is which is the meaning of the text. Is it expressing love? as we could conclude in the first 2 verse. Or is it expressing hate? because the other 2 verses change the meaning Thats the paradox


11)How do all of the elements of the poem support and develop the primary paradox or irony?


All the elements make the perfect result of confusion and tension caused by not knowing the answer.