Question

how does the first stanza help frame the overall poem? consider setting and theme in your answer. poem: “morning in the burned house” by margaret atwood

Answer 1

Answer:

The first stanza helps frame the overall poem by giving us the image of a house of which there is nothing left, only the speaker and her memories.

Explanation:

This poem describes a painful situation in which the protagonist relates about a burned house in which she used to live.

Nothing remains of this house, only the remains of ashes and melted things. The speaker narrates how she is still seen having breakfast and doing things, listening and seeing the loved ones she has lost.

Only she is left, "no one else is around".

The first stanza already brings us fully into what the poem is going to be: "there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am."