Beautiful Princess Diana

Question 1

C-Princess Diana

Answer 1

A tumultuous marriage with affairs leading to divorce
Paparazzi obsession
Death in Paris in car accident after being chased by paparazzi

Question 2

What is the Structure of the stanzas?

Answer 2

written in quatrains

Question 3

‘Dead’ technique

Answer 3

caesura

Question 4

‘Dead’ Meaning

Answer 4

creates an unsettling moment of pause to emphasise her final resting state which came at the hands of the paparazzi.

Question 5

‘Stare’ Technique

Answer 5

Repetition combined with Polysyndeton

Question 6

‘Stare’ Meaning

Answer 6

Represents the invasion of the media.

Question 7

‘Beauty is fate’ and ‘Beauty is fame’ Technique

Answer 7

Contrast

Question 8

‘Beauty is fate’ and ‘Beauty is fame’ Meaning

Answer 8

Represents the outcomes of Diana and HOT
Right throughout history women have been exploited

Question 9

‘Act like a fucking princess’ ‘Give us a smile cunt’ Technique

Answer 9

Vulgar language
Give us a smile cunt- caesura

Question 10

‘Act like a fucking princess’ ‘Give us a smile cunt’ Meaning

Answer 10

Defining the rage of the media which pursued her and the unrealistic expectations placed on her.
contradictory life either loved by millions or receiving slurs

Question 11

‘Blue eyes widened’ Meaning

Answer 11

Displays her vulnerability

Question 12

‘History’s stinking breath in her face’ Technique

Answer 12

Personification

Question 13

‘History’s stinking breath in her face’ Meaning

Answer 13

Highlight how the world capitalises on Women’s image. Final words of ‘her face’ centralise how the poem acres a female experience

Question 14

What’s the effect of the structure of the stanzas?

Answer 14

reflect the immeasurable pressure on Diana to conform to princess stereotypes
Confining the structure to a particular style represents her entrapment