"The Landlady" Poetry Commentary

Margaret Atwood's theme in The Landlady is about the speaker's prison-like living situation in what can be assumed to be a dorm. The landlady has made home, the place where we can feel free and comfortable, to a suffering sentence. The landlady is sin control, and the speaker, a young university student, cannot escape from the landlady, physically nor mentally. The Landlady is effectively written in free verse and is a run-on style of poetry, …

…the speaker is going through at the time. <Tab/>In conclusion, Margaret Atwood's main concern is to voice her opinion and convey as clearly as possible her feminist views. Though her use of metaphors and choice of words, she gives and impression that women, during the time period of when this poem was written, there was a strong feminist uprising, allowing the women to realize they were treated with no respect.