progressive insanities of a pioneer commentary
The man in the poem Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer by Margaret Atwood is unable to shape nature into what he wants it to be. By definition a pioneer is one who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle. ... The pioneer is not comfortable about being somewhere that is so open and unorganized. The pioneer can not accept that nature has no order; nature’s lack of order is its order. ... From the time the pioneer arrived he did not feel comfortable with the openness of his new home.