Eat Me
- Created by: HannahO17
- Created on: 22-11-17 17:41
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- Eat Me
- Middle
- Stanza 4
- 'bigger the better'- Alliteration
- 'big girls, soft girls'- Monosyllabic description: Childlike/ Patronising
- Stanza 5
- 'I was his Jacuzzi'
- Dehumanising/Objectifying/Possessive
- Circular- Emphasise on 'roundness' and size
- Usually associated with affluence and indulgence or unnecessary indulgence
- Possessive ('his Jacuzzi', 'his pleasure')
- 'forbidden fruit'- Biblical lexis, Adam and Eve/ Tempation
- 'I was his Jacuzzi'
- Stanza 6
- 'beached whale', 'desert island', 'shipwreck' 'wave'- Nautical lexis, lexis of discovery
- 'His breadfruit'- Staple food/Like bread? Or Tropical/Exotic/Indulgent
- 'beached whale' to 'a tidal wave of flesh'- Change in tone,helpless to being powerful ('tidal wave'- an unstoppable force)
- Stanza 4
- Beginning
- Title
- Monosyllabic
- Command/ Order
- Similar to the Colloquial term 'Bite Me'. Suggests Confidence/ Strength of Character
- Stanza 2
- 'Pink'/'White'-Unnatural Colours for Food'
- Caesuras 'eat me' 'what I was told'
- Slows down stanza- creates a sombre tone
- Like a list of rules, a mundane routine
- 'Didn't even taste it.' -Truncated sentence creates a casual/ careless tone (perhaps to convey her lack of fulfilment?)
- Stanza 3
- 'broad belly wobble'- Alliteration
- 'judder like a juggernaut'
- 'J' sounds (Alliteration) Effect of movement
- 'juggernaut'- A huge powerful force: Emphasises size or could suggest underlying strength
- Lots of similar sounding words- Sensuous/ Emphasises the women's size/ movement
- Stanza 1
- 'When I hit thirty'- Casual/ informal ('hit') storytelling tone (Dramatic Monologue)
- 'Cake' 'Weight'-Awkward rhyme (Consonance)
- Title
- End
- Stanza 7
- 'too fat' (Repeated 4 times)- Angry/Irritated
- 'chubby, cuddly'- Euphemisms
- Stanza 8
- 'The day I hit thirty nine' - Chronological
- 'I allowed him' -Shift in power
- 'His flesh, my flesh flowed'- Sensuous alliteration, refers back to the sounds in the third stanza
- Stanza 9
- 'Soon you'll be forty'- Chronological
- 'I rolled and drowned him in my flesh.'-Caesura, monotone and disturbing
- Stanza 10
- 'There was nothing left in the house to eat.'- Unfulfilled
- 'bulging with greed'- Simile, Sinful, like the biblical lexis of Adam and Eve (Roles have been reversed)
- 'six hours that felt like a week'- Hyperbolic, represents how she cannot survive on her own
- Stanza 7
- Basic Conventions
- Dramatic Monologue- Insight into someones thoughts/ feelings
- 30 Lines/ 3 Line Stanzas
- Routine
- 1st Person Narrator
- Untitled
- Middle
- Stanza 1
- 'When I hit thirty'- Casual/ informal ('hit') storytelling tone (Dramatic Monologue)
- 'Cake' 'Weight'-Awkward rhyme (Consonance)
- Stanza 6
- 'beached whale', 'desert island', 'shipwreck' 'wave'- Nautical lexis, lexis of discovery
- 'His breadfruit'- Staple food/Like bread? Or Tropical/Exotic/Indulgent
- 'beached whale' to 'a tidal wave of flesh'- Change in tone,helpless to being powerful ('tidal wave'- an unstoppable force)
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