I like the way the Atwood describes her heart in a literal, visceral sense as opposed to the traditional rounded symbol of love. She makes the heart seem disgusting, especially with the lines: "wetblack and glimmering / their four mouths gulping like fish." She goes on to recognize that her heart is different form other's, more fickle and often contradicting itself. The poem comes to a close with Atwood implies that she has stopped trying to please her heart, that it is insatiable, and it will be a relief when it stops beating.
"Homage to My Hips" paints the image of a large, confident woman, powerful in her self-respect. Its obvious she doesn't care about what others think (and maybe even has some prejudice against smaller women) when she says in this assonant phrase, "they don't fit into little / petty places." The poem really shows how important self confidence can be and what it is capable of in the hands of a woman.
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