Eat Me Flashcards
Eat Me
- connotes childlike imagery Alice in the Wonderland
- imperative command/aggressive duosllyabic foreshadowing conflict and corruption
‘he bought me’
syntax immediate establishment of who’s in control
‘cake’
‘weight’
-half rhyme, uncertainty lacking identity
female pressure to lose individuality, conform to society
‘walk’ ‘broad’ ‘juggernaut’
half rhyme relationship is half sided
‘the bigger the better hed say
‘heteroglossia’ two points of view interrupt dramatic monologue man is in power
‘massess of cellulite’
double letters parallel doubling in weight
‘I was his Jacuzzi’
different syntax foreshadows power flip
‘swell like forbidden fruit’
simile, comparison to religious iamgery cant touch, pleasure comes from visual aspects
‘beached whale on a king sized bed’
bringin nature into domesticated world, normalising his behaviour natural state of mind
‘the day i hit thirty nine’
before ‘when’ = growing trauma more specific
‘flesh flowed’
semantic field of water- representative of cellulite and fatness extremity and depth
hidden power and mystery of the woman
‘poured olive’
assonance mimics choking
strucure
every stanza complete with full stop= comformity and expectation of reader
‘nothing else left in the house to eat’
monosyllaibc emptiness no pain or trauma eating is over
