eat me Flashcards
key themes
- gender roles
- power and control
- body image and beauty standards
- isolation
“he asked me”
very, equally showing the man and the speakers power within their relationship
title, “eat me”
an allusion to alice in wonderland, this film implies a strange, dream-like and grotesque atmosphere - which is replicated within the poem
topic of the poem
based on the fetish of ‘feederism’
speakers power
- the speaker appears at first to be passive and powerless to the extreme image of male power
- but the power is truly in the hands of the speaker
“girls i can burrow inside”
invasive metaphor indicating the power of the man
quotes signalling the man’s power
“he asked me”
“did what i was told”
“too fat to leave”
“his jacuzzi”
“poured olive oil down my throat”
“but he was my cook”
“so he could watch my broad belly wobble”
“i was his jacuzzi. but he was my cook”
metaphor, objectifying the speaker creating a disturbing image. the speaker acts as a comfort to the man
caesura acts as a turning point, as the reader realises the man is not fully in control
“his”
repeated possessive pronoun
“his desert island after shipwreck”
metaphor, speaker acts as a place of safety or shelter
“or a beached whale on a king sized bed craving a wave”
metaphor, image of speaker as powerless, imagery of the sea
“craving a wave. i was a tidal wave of flesh”
metaphor, indicating the destructive power of the speaker
caesura - contrast
pattern of imagery that relates to the sea/ a tropical island
indicates the power of the speaker
- also indicates that the man is dependent on the speaker, to feel safe he has to take control but by trying to make her powerless he gives her power over him
“his jacuzzi”
“his desert island”
“a beached whale on a king sized bed craving a wave”
“i was a tidal wave of flesh”
“drowned”
pattern of sea/ tropical island imagery
“he drowned in my flesh. i drowned his dying sentence out”
- the role of power has swapped and the speaker holds the power
- this power is the destructive power of the “tidal wave”
- metaphor for the silencing and murder of the man
