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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
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