Eat Me Flashcards
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TITLE
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- Irony of the poem
- Sexual illusion
- Allusion to Alice in Wonderland
2
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“When I hit thirty”
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- Pun : duality of weight and age, duplicate meaning
- Subverted meaning : dark humour
3
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“Three layers of icing, home-made”
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- Evidence of male desire, excessive layers of sugar, love is sickly and disturbing
- Appositive of home made with caesura and endstop
4
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“EAT ME”
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- Allusion to Alice in wonderland : fairytale like, sardonic tone, synical and comical
- Imperative : submissive and controlling, abusive relationship. Monosyllabic language portrays her as naive and infantilised.
5
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“Watch my broad belly wobble, hips judder like a juggernaut”
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- Alliteration : repetition of the heaviness
- Onomatopoeia : humourous, visceral imagery
6
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“I like big girls, soft girls, girls I can burrow inside with multiple chins, masses of cellulite”
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- Direct speech / italics
- Asyndetic listing : repetition of girls emphasising abusers control, infantilisation of women.
- comforting to his vision but not for love, leads to objectification of women visually. Dynamic of conformity
7
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“I was his jacuzzi. But he was my cook”
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- She is seen as a source of comfort and warmth (satisfactory / pleasure)
- He is a necessity and reliant on him for survival.
- Emphasises the abusive relationship
8
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“To watch me swell like forbidden fruit”
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- Biblical allusion : emphasising abusers desire and temptation as sinful and increasing
9
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“His breadfruit. His desert island after a shipwreck”
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- Repetitive of possessive pronoun : emphasises power dynamic, controlling and abusive relationship
10
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“Or a beached whale on a king-size bed craving a wave. I was a tidal wave of flesh”
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- Metaphor : whale incongruous to setting, displaced emphasising lack of power but potential for power. Animalistic imagery dehumanises her, helplessness
- Motif of water : foreshadows empowerment
11
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“Too fat” / “called chubby, cuddly, bit-built”
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- Anaphoric repetition : realisation of position, recognition, verbose and excessive
- Assonance : euphemistic language contrasted by dysphemism, begins to focus on herself
12
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“He said, Open wide”
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- Imperative : still controlling, infantilises her, majority of verbs is him directing her
13
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“I drowned his dying sentence out”
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- Physically shuts him up when he is trying to command her, smothers him, silences his manipulation and takes agency, cuts off voice.
14
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“His mouth slightly open, his eyes bulging with greed”
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- Attempted to consume speaker, contrasts greed, sexual desire is visualised, desire lead to death
15
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“Nothing else in the house to eat”
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- Irony : becomes victim to own desire, takes agency and control
