You Fit Into Me

You Fit Into Me - meaning Summary

Domestic Intimacy Turned Violent

Atwood’s short poem begins with a familiar romantic simile—"You fit into me like a hook into an eye"—then abruptly corrodes that image. The second couplet reframes the hook-and-eye as a fish hook and an open eye, turning intimacy into entrapment and injury. The poem compresses affection, dependence, and threat into four lines, suggesting a relationship that is both fitting and dangerously damaging.