Please help! Poetry analysis of A Holiday by Margaret Atwood.?

Question

Somehow I don't really understand this poem! (At least not in depth enough). Can someone please provide an analysis of this poem or an online link where I can find a free essay which analyses this poem?
Thank you!!!

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Title: A Holiday

My child in the smoke of the fire
playing at barbarism,
the burst meat dripping down her
chin, soot smearing
her cheek and her hair infested with twigs,
under a midsummer-leafed tree
in the rain, the shelter
of poles and canvas down
the road if needed:

This could be where we
end up, learning the minimal
with maybe no tree, no rain,
no shelter, no roast carcasses
of animals to renew us

at a time when language
will shrink to the word hunger
and the word none.

Mist lifts from the warm lake
hit by the cold drizzle:
too much dust in the stratosphere
this year, they say. Unseasonal.

Here comes the ice,
here comes something,
we can all feel it
like a breath, a footstep,
here comes nothing
with its calm eye of fire.

What we're having right
now is a cookout,
sausages on peeled sticks.
The blades of grass are still with us. My daughter forages,
grace plumps the dusty berries,
two or three hot and squashed in her fist.

So far we do it
for fun. So far is
where we've gone
and no farther.

-Margaret Atwood

Answer 1

Post the poem, please.

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