Eat Me- Poetry Flashcards
1
Q
“A candle for each stone in weight”
A
- Eat Me
- Replacing age with weight.
- Become important, an achievement to be marvelled.
2
Q
“EAT ME”
A
- Eat Me
- Intertextual reference to Alice in Wonderland. Alice grows rapidly and uncontrollably, the narrator has no control over her own body, but her partner does, where as Alice has not control at all.
- Irony and foreshadowing, she “did what I was told”. Does later in poem.
3
Q
“Walk around the bed”
A
- Eat Me
- Several references to their bed, creates more sexual images and the idea that her partner has control over her.
4
Q
“Watch my broad belly wobble”
A
- Eat Me
- Plosive alliteration.
- Onomatopoeia.
- Creates a thudding sound, contributes to the idea of her obesity and how big she has become
- Imagery Has another way of creating emphasis on her size.
5
Q
“Hips judder like a juggernaut”
A
- Eat Me
- Dehumanisation
- Connotations
- “Juggernaut” of heavy vehicle with overwhelming force.
- Shows partners fetizisation of her hand her weight.
- Foreshadowing,
- Tradition, krishna wheeled, thrown underneath, often injured.
- Alliteration.
- Emphasis on actions and how doing.
6
Q
“I was his Jacuzzi”
A
- Eat Me
- Objectification, dehumanization.
- Lexical field of water, foreshadowing the drowning.
7
Q
“Watch me swell like a forbidden fruit.”
A
- Eat Me
- Simile
- Shows not
normalrelationship - Submissive over her own body
- Reference to Adam and Eve, suggests sinning, transgressive, crossing a moral line.
8
Q
“His breadfruit”
A
- Eat Me
- “His” possessive pronoun.
- “Breadfruit” Found in West Indies.
- His possession to control, dehumanisation.
9
Q
“His desert island after shipwreck”
A
- Eat Me
- Semantic field of water/ ocean
- Endless, big, deep rooted, lack of control of how she uses her body.
- post colonial, Robin Crusoe, after rebellion gains independence, foreshadowing.
10
Q
“A beached whale on a king-sized bed.”
A
- Eat Me
- Metaphor, dehumanisation,
- refers to her directly as an animal.
11
Q
“Too fat…”
“Too fat…”
“Too fat…”
A
- Eat Me
- Anaphora (repetition)
- Emphasised the lack of control she has over her own body, her partner has control over her. She is passive.
- She is too fat to do stuff, external factor to her relationship, becomes the realisation.
- Is the turning point, the power is reversed to her.
12
Q
“Full fat milk.”
A
- Eat Me
- He has control over her.
- Everyday things become impossible.
13
Q
“Too fat to be called chubby, cuddly, big-built.”
A
- Eat Me.
- Euphemistic, list of three.
- Are excuses/ alternatives to how she could be called.
- Past the point of excuses, contributes to the turning point and external factor.
14
Q
“The day I hit thirty-nine, I allowed him to stroke
my globe of a cheek.”
A
- Eat Me
- Sounds like starting again, but with the power balance shifted.
- “allowed” suggests she is now in control.
15
Q
“His flesh, my flesh flowed.”
A
- Eat Me.
- Fricative
- Emphasises fluidity that is shown in her body and the new shift in power.
- Enhances the semantic field of water
