Comparison essay between Margaret Atwood's "This is a Photograph of Me" and "Morning in the Burned House"

Now You See Me, Now You Don't Illusion is often mistaken for reality. Poet Margaret Atwood's poems, "This is a Photograph of Me" and "Morning in the Burned House" can be compared in terms of writing style, and theme. In "This is a Photograph of Me" Atwood writes using a combination of contrasting, irony, and symbolism, while in the poem "Morning in the Burned House" she uses irony, and symbolism in order to enhance the …

…between the two poems are, the use of the same techniques to enhance the theme which is done by using irony, the narrators speak about their deaths without emotion, symbolism, the causes of death are both symbols in which they relate back to the theme. The styles that Atwood uses in both poems can be analyzed in a similar fashion, which is the key to determining where the line is drawn between illusion and reality.