Eat Me
- Created by: Lottie Deutsch
- Created on: 21-12-18 19:05
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- Eat Me
- Stanza 1 - 2
- the word 'hit' has negative connotations which juxtapose the idea of celebration through 'cake' and 'icing'
- 'home-made' suggests care was put into the cake
- the icing is pink and white - gender roles of purity and feminity being forced on her
- the use of the full stop in the middle of line 'they said eat me. And I ate, did.' - shows forced to eat
- imperitive makes more forceful
- use of k, t, and d at the end of lines makes it appear harsh and forceful
- loss of pronoun on 'didn't even taste it' - loss of identity and loss of control over self
- calls it 'it' - so disgusted
- Stanza 3 - 4
- there are predatory sexual undertones
- 'watch me' - as if her weight is a fetish for him
- constant focus on her weight throughout the poem - 'broad belly' - 'juggernaut'
- voyeuristic nature, focus on the way she moves - 'judder' and 'wobble' - emphasises her weight
- the alliteration of 'bigger the better, he'd say, I like' - shows harsh controlling nature
- 'he'd say' is isolated by the commas reflecting the control he has over her life
- 'big girls, soft girls' - repetition of 'girls' represents their power dynamic and how he puts her a child's role
- focus on weight 'big' - 'soft'
- 'burrow inside' - sexual connotations
- constant use of 'I' - 'I can' - 'I like' - she has no control
- 'masses' 'multiple' - weight focused on even more - growing as poem goes on
- there are predatory sexual undertones
- Stanza 5 - 6
- 'I was his jacuzzi' - shows 'his' ownership of her - she is his pleasure
- 'swell like forbidden fruit' - bible
- 'watch me' idea of the male gaze - sexualising her
- she is held captive by him a 'beached whale' - he is her provider 'my cook'
- 'tidal wave of flesh' - 'juggernaut' - powerful due to her size, her only power - foreshadowing - she doesn't release her power
- there is a lack of direct speech from her only reporting his views - power dynamic
- Stanza 7 - 8
- uses anaphora of 'too' to emphasise her growth in weight
- the fat overpowers her - shows how he overpowers her - prevents her from being able to be herself
- emotive as it shows her as a person, 'emotional shield'
- 'I allowed him to stroke my cheek' - power dynamic has shifted, he now is subject to her
- 'his flesh, my flesh flowed' suggest they are one - he made her like this so his flesh too
- her as force of water 'flow' 'jacuzzi' 'whale' - powerful, under estimated power
- 'open wide, poured olive oil down my throat' - guttural, childlike with the 'open-wide' - as if paying him back by suffocating him as he has poured down her throat
- Stanza 9 - 10
- questions the reader - 'and how could I not' - putting them her shoes to make them empathise
- 'I rolled and he drowned...I drowned his dying sentence out'
- use of her as water throughout to show drowning in flesh - foreshadow
- plosive d shows she is powerful
- 'I rolled' pronouns - she is in control
- 'his mouth slightly open' - mirrors food on a platter
- 'bulging with greed' - irony she ate but he was the greedy one
- ambigious last sentence - cannibalism - dark humour as shows he loved her fate and would now become it
- structure is complete full sentences showing her life of oppression is over and is now free to live
- title
- the font mirrors font used in Alice in Wonderland
- normally in capital letters to reflect the womans constant growth
- the word 'me' encourages eating
- structure
- the rigid structure shows rigid life she has
- enjambe shows her constant growth of fat
- Stanza 1 - 2
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