''The Door'' is a book of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

author Margaret Atwood, published in 2007. The poems of ''The Door'' demonstrate self-awareness on the part of the author. They confront themes of advancing age and encroaching death (Atwood was 68 in 2007), as well as authorial fame and the drive to produce writing. Less autobiographical themes are also explored in ''The Door'', including environmental issues, torture and war, and the relation of the personal and the political. ''The Door'' is divided into five sections. # The first section explores personal loss, of parents, cats or childhood. # The second section explores the role of the poet. # The third section confronts the horrors of contemporary life. # The fourth section defends the despondency of section three. # The fifth section explores the domestic relationship between lovers, in an echo of Atwood's earlier collection '' You Are Happy''

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