Is Margaret Atwood really bored in her poem Bored?

Answer 1

The poet recollects the moments that no more exists and terms them as those times when she was 'bored'. That boredom of the past is, however, worth remembering and cherishing. All those moments she remembers of working and being with his father are supposedly 'bored'. Yet the remembrance is sweet.

She wonders why when she remembers those days, she remembers them as "sunny" while they were "rainy" most of the time. It is then that she realizes that "Perhaps...boredom is happier". Only if she could relive that moment she would know all too well how nothing at all existed worth being bored about. The "boredom is happier" for the remembrance of such moments are sweet and perhaps the poet's life would have been much better lived and enjoyed when she was with her father than what she is now.

Answer 2

Margaret Atwood's poem "Bored" is a satirical take on the feeling of ennui and dissatisfaction with societal norms. The speaker is not necessarily bored in the traditional sense, but rather commenting on the monotony and superficiality of everyday life.