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Margaret Atwood

Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

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Introduction

“Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet”

  • Originally Published: 2009
  • Form/Meter: Prose poem
  • Literary Devices: Parable, repetition and parallelism, imagery
  • Central Concern: The poem explores the impact of greed on the natural world and on humankind.

Margaret Atwood, Poet

  • Bio: Born in 1939; a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; graduate of Victoria College and Harvard University; writes poems, novels, short stories, and essays; recipient of the Franz Kafka International Literary Award, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Booker Prize, among other awards

Other Works: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985); The Blind Assassin (2002); Oryx and Craik (2008)

THEMES

  • Environmentalism
  • Greed
  • Religion