Margaret Atwood is a remarkable and perhaps the most prominent figure in contemporary Canadian literature. She is a writer of many facets, poet, novelist, critic, cartoonist, editor, lecturer and an active participant in several literary organizations. However, it was poetry that built her reputation as a writer of international repute. Her writing has explored a wide range of concerns and “expand the brackets” of traditional literary genres establishing her status as a major author in Canada and worldwide. W.J.Keith describes her as “the most brilliant, controversial, versatile, abrasive and enigmatic figure in Canadian literature.(Keith,1983:93) Cooke Nathalie has also called her a “literary lion”, in her autobiography. She was born in Canada in1939 in a middle-class Anglo-Canadian family. Atwood had a first-hand experience with the Canadian wilderness. Her father was an entomologist so during summers, she along with her family lived in remote areas where her father conducted field research, providing her opportunities to feel and see nature very closely. However, Atwood's love of the natural world of the wilderness, is quite obviously rooted in her childhood.