Lesbos Flashcards

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  • Written after separation from Hughes, inspired by her visit to Kathy Kane in Cornwall
  • Angry from the outset (‘viciousness in the kitchen!’), a vitriolic/bitter attack on another woman.
  • Uncharacteristically free-verse
  • Kathy does not feel that her husband is attracted to her anymore
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  • ‘The potatoes hiss’
  • ‘Why she is schitzophrenic’ ‘You have stuck her kittens outside your window’
  • ‘You say that I should drown my girl’
  • ‘I should wear tiger pants, I should have an affair’- encouraging her to sexualize herself
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