Eat Me - Patience Agbabi
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- Created on: 24-11-16 10:17
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- Eat Me - Patience Agbabi
- Structure
- Strong Structure
- 10 stanzas with 3 lines each
- It is an audacious dramatic monologue which is a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation
- Uses rhyming words such as 'cake' and 'weight' which cause uncertainity
- Uses repetition of the letter 'c' such as in 'called chubby cuddly' to emphasize controll
- Emphasis of sound 'o' such as in 'poured olive oil down my throat' highlights sound of choking
- Strong Structure
- Language Techniques
- 'He likes soft girls' emphasises the control and how he likes to dominate
- Euphamism
- Use of the word 'cuddly' is often used when calling someone fat without being disrespectful
- Imagery
- 'I was a tidal wave of flesh'
- Symbolises how once a tidal wave is approaching you cannot stop it and will destruct anything
- Symbolism of the male's death
- Symbolises how once a tidal wave is approaching you cannot stop it and will destruct anything
- 'His desert island after shipwreck. Or a beached whale on a king-size bed craving a wave'
- Water imagery is often used as water engulfs and can change into any shape
- Shows how she has no strength of character
- Water imagery is often used as water engulfs and can change into any shape
- 'I was a tidal wave of flesh'
- Tone
- Melancholic and submissive
- Shows how she could probably never tell anyone about how she feels
- Personal pronouns in the last 2/3 tercets changes the tone
- She gains more control over him
- Melancholic and submissive
- Structure
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