Last Supper Flashcards
“She is getting good and ready to renounce/his sweet flesh./Not just for lent. (For/Ever)”
Finality - The woman in the poem is preparing a last meal before breaking up with her lover. (She will miss the physical relationship though.)
“last treat”
Finality - The woman in the poem is preparing a last meal before breaking up with her lover. (She will miss the physical relationship though.)
“betrayal with a kiss”
Betrayal and Anger - The woman in the poem had been cheated on by her lover and is clearly angry at his betrayal of her.
“cooked goose”
Betrayal and Anger - The woman in the poem had been cheated on by her lover and is clearly angry at his betrayal of her.
“silverware”
Betrayal and Anger - The woman in the poem had been cheated on by her lover and is clearly angry at his betrayal of her.
“tearing foliage” , “scrambling the salad”
Betrayal and Anger - The woman in the poem had been cheated on by her lover and is clearly angry at his betrayal of her.
“The table she’s made (and oh yes now/ will have to lie on)”
The woman contemplates the consequences of the bad choice she’s made in love, and its consequences, and the poem suggests that she will put her poor romantic choice behind her and move on to another relationship.
“then something substantial, something extra/tasty if not elegant “
The woman contemplates the consequences of the bad choice she’s made in love, and its consequences, and the poem suggests that she will put her poor romantic choice behind her and move on to another relationship.
“what kind of leftover hash she’d make of it/among friends”
The woman looks ahead to getting together with her female friends once the relationship is over
“just/The Girls, when those three met again”
The woman looks ahead to getting together with her female friends once the relationship is over
“What very good soup/she could render from the bones”
The poem conveys the idea of the woman taking revenge or exacting punishment as her friends round her and the group ruthlessly denigrates her ex-lover.
“Yes, there they’d be, cackling around the cauldron,/ spitting out the gristlier bits/ of his giblets”
The woman imagines how they will relish this character assassination, which is predatory in nature, as they “feed off” the experience, “chewing over” the failed relationship.
“gnawing on the knucklebone of some/intricate irony”
The woman imagines how they will relish this character assassination, which is predatory in nature, as they “feed off” the experience, “chewing over” the failed relationship.
“petit-gout mouthfuls of reported speech”
The woman imagines how they will relish this character assassination, which is predatory in nature, as they “feed off” the experience, “chewing over” the failed relationship.
“they’d sink back/gorged on truth/and their own savage integrity”
Righteous self-satisfaction from derogating ex-boyfriend
