eat me

Question 1

structure

Answer 1

vignette snap shots of a relationship
rhyme heightens this entrapment

Question 2

stanza 1: ‘when I hit 30’ … ‘me a cake… a candle for each stone in weight”

Answer 2

• the use of popular idiom yet idea she hit thirty - collisions and the abruptions of memory, manipulative from the offset, turning point
• post modification of cake is excessive indulgence, the position of the information reflects the potential importance of weight in the poem

Question 3

stanza 2: ‘I ate… didn’t even taste it’

Answer 3

• biblical syntax = power and dominion
• lack of pleasure
• physical fulness v emotional emptiness

Question 4

stanza 3: ‘my broad belly wobble’

Answer 4

• plosives exaggerate heaviness
• wobble has connotations of jelly and infantilisation of the speaker. jelly is still restricted illusion of freedom and equality

Question 5

stanza 5: “watch me swell”

Answer 5

• extended metaphor of water throughout poem
• tidal wave building up
• also pregnant women belly

Question 6

stanza 8: ‘his flesh, my flesh flowed. he said open wide, poured olive oil down my throat’’

Answer 6

the fricatives = create atmosphere of suffocating physicality and exacerbate the torturous repulsive unnaturalness of olive oil

open wide is an idiomatic child like phrase